Helen Herron Taft Quotes
Nothing in a college education makes a girl either unfit for domestic obligations or masculine in her tastes..
This was quite a radical, feminist statement at the time. But it gives us a good insight into the sexism that then existed where for many the belief was that a young woman would be harmed by a college education.
Helen Herron Taft, 1861-1943, First Lady, Quoted in The Washington Post, May 5, 1907
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This was one of the first higher educational opportunities for women in England. Note how they felt they had to justify higher education for women.
Fix the Family is the flagship program of a lay Catholic teaching Apostolate.
Bolivar was a great leader, far ahead of his time in many areas, but he had a classic sexist view of women and their possible role in public affairs.
Some Republicans were concerned about regulations requiring employers who provide health insurance to cover contraceptives could potentially interfere with their religious freedom if they had religious compunctions about birth control, but their proposed solutions would have denied some women in the work force basic medical care as recommended by almost all health authorities. Some of the strongest male opponents of the regulations had a long standing track record as being against birth control of any kind. Many women then rose up to protest what appeared to them as an attempt to roll back their hard won right to control their own body. The issue became a part of almost any discussion involving women, and advocates of providing all of women with birth control rights and availability showed how it tied in with almost every facet of a woman’s like. In this case, being able to go to and finish college and graduate school which becomes much less likely if a woman gives birth to an unplanned child.
This question he asked of an interviewee was at the time not even considered offensive of patronizing and women and men who advocated careers for women would try to explain that women could do both. Very few would counter with the point that what about men and their “neglect” of family life or the reality that through the entire Second World War MILLIONS of women were working. This quotation illustrated the culture change in the years since then.
Helen Louise Taft was the wife of William Howard Taft and the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913.
