Margaret Mead Quotes
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Mead, Margaret. Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views. Edited by Rhoda Metraux, Walker, 1979.
He had subsequently changed his mind and when Secretary of the Navy he opened many operational billets to women. And he publicly stated that he was comfortable with women leading men in combat.
The CAA was the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the forerunner to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
This quotation has become very well-known, The Israel military was the first Industrial democracies to allow women in combat. It is also the only one which drafts women into the military. Such sexism is very typical of a minority of the Israeli population which favors the traditional Orthodox role of females in society, but the vast majority is very liberal and modern regarding women, and the Supreme Court has generally upheld women’s equality except where there are conflicts with Orthodox religious institutions.
Mrs. Roosevelt thought that with the rate of improvement in society’s perception and treatment of women was improving so steadily that women in America were not far from equality. Because of the shortage of men on the home front in WWII women had performed well in virtually all occupations including welding, heavy construction and management and it was just a matter of time to reach equality of pay and parity. However, she and most feminists did not take into account the 2 million men returning from military service who wanted their jobs back. Sexists, who had been suppressed during the war when they objected to women in non traditional occupations, were no longer silenced by national necessity. An occupational backlash developed. Then a sexual one regarding contraception and family planning, (Condoms for example were illegal up to 1963 as birth control device). Each major step forward was accompanied by its own backlash and even in the Presidential Campaign of 2012 contained debate on women’s control over their own bodies relative to abortion and contraception.
Golden was one of the leading theater producers of the 1920s and 1930s. There is even a theater on Broadway named after him. This statement reflects a common attitude of the late 1930s of even many educated people. A few like Eleanor Roosevelt saw such a statement for what it was—ridiculous and responded publicly – {636785} . Note that for many years, this was a self-fulfilling statement. Producers like Golden thought women could not be great playwrights and therefore would never produce a play authored by a woman. Then others would use the fact that there were no even good plays that were written by female authors as evidence of the act that women could not be great playwrights.
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.
