Bernice Sandler Quotes

United States, Activist
March 3, 1928 – January, 5, 2019.

Bernice Resnick Sandler was an American women's rights activist born in New York. Sandler is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with Representatives Edith Green (D-OR) and Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times.

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

Bernice Sandler
- Society
- Sex
- Prejudice
When I applied to college it was openly known that women needed higher grades and test scores in order to be accepted. No one complained - it was just the way things were.

Bernice Sandler
- Women
- College
- Accepted

When Title IX was passed I was quite naive. I thought all the problems of sex discrimination in education would be solved in one or two years at most. When two years passed, I increased my estimate to five years, then later to ten, then to fifty, and now I realize it will take many generations to solve all the problems.

Bernice Sandler
- Education
- Sex
- Problems