\u201cWell-behaved women seldom make history.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard that before. It\u2019s often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt or Marilyn Monroe, but it actually comes from a 1976 article on Puritan funeral services written by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. I guess if anyone would know, it\u2019s a historian, right?<\/p>\n
Ms. Ulrich meant that women making a positive impact on society are often ignored, but in a society where women are supposed to look pretty and stay quiet, being \u201cwell-behaved\u201d isn\u2019t necessarily a desirable trait. It\u2019s the troublemakers who get things done, the squeaky wheels who bring about change.<\/p>\n
Take Dr. Bernice \u201cBunny\u201d Sandler, who died in January at the age of 90. Dr. Sandler was the driving force behind the creation of Title IX, which bars gender-based discrimination by any educational institution funded by federal dollars. She liked to go into men\u2019s clubs and hand out buttons bearing the phrase, \u201cUppity Women Unite.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Sandler was once told she was being passed over for a full-time job because she \u201c[came] on too strong for a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was in the 1960s \u2014 but tell me it couldn\u2019t have happened today. We like to think we\u2019ve come so far, but looking at recent media coverage of women who\u2019ve entered the Democratic presidential race proves the opposite. No one is talking about Cory Booker\u2019s sex life. No one is asking if Sherrod Brown is \u201clikeable\u201d enough. But those are exactly the headlines surrounding candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n
How many times have you been interrupted or ignored in a meeting? How many times this week? Today? Who among us hasn\u2019t been called bossy or loud or shrill? Told she\u2019s too much?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I say to that: never change. Be bossy. Be loud. Be as much as you want to be. Speak up. Give me your rebels. Give me your rabble-rousers. Give me your nasty women. Misbehave. Make history.<\/p>\n
And if you know where I can get an \u201cUppity Women Unite\u201d pin \u2014 or a case of them \u2014 let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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