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.

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
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 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