BEING A WOMAN ACTIVIST:
The experiences of the Women Who Dared illustrate that being female can be both an obstacle and an advantage in their activist work. While some of these women experienced discrimination or limited opportunities based on their gender, others found access to women's communities, new political commitments, and benefits won by the women's movement.
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Women in orthodoxy have always been involved, for thousands of years, but in private. We were doing this differently... (Hadassah Goodman)
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SHALVA (Safe Homes Advice and Legal Aid for Victims of Abuse)
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[Law is] a clearly male profession still. You have to do as well as you can, you have to work at it, and you get some acceptances
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Ruth Abrams
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I learned about gender bias in a sort of subtle way, because my father sent me to the courthouse. The clerks would wait on everybody else, because they thought I was a secretary
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Ruth Abrams
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In some ways, it's been easier as a woman, in the areas that I've been in. In other places it's been harder. Surprisingly, in Afghanistan it was actually easier
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Lynn Amowitz
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"Too much injustice and violence ... has forced me to become an activist."
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Rita Arditti
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What is so sinful about listening to a woman's voice?
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Hadassah Blocker
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I think a consciousness of ways in which women and children have been exploited [was important to my work]
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Renee Brant
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Luckily I wasn't around when there was the time when women were the inferior
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Elana Brownstein
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Being female means you're more likely to be a victim of abuse in a relationship.
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Rebecca Chernin
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A woman's perspective is different from a man's. Nurturing is incorporated into everything I've done.
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Ruth Clarke
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My generation is the bridge generation between...
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Shannie Goldstein
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In the beginning, the biggest challenge had been, quite honestly, arrogant Congressmen
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Judi Hirshfield-Bartek
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It's kind of hard for me to separate being a lesbian from being an activist, because I feel like they came really linked
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Shulamit Izen
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I think it's easier because I'm a woman. Guys in this school won't talk about being gay, really
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Shulamit Izen
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It was a very unique opportunity for women. There had just been a lot of FCC regulation and the people were challenging licensing galore
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Margaret Lazarus
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For me, where I start from, there's very little to lose. I can't be really more of an outcast
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Susan Maze-Rothstein
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Women are very good at supporting each other
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Shelley Morhaim
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We though that it was less risky to take this step [to demonstrate as women].
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Galina Nizhnikov Veremkroit
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I haven't found it to be really an advantage or a disadvantage which is a good thing.
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Marla Oros
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I'm not sure a man could have done the job. I think part of my advantage was I'm a woman in a mostly male setting.
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Marilyn Paul
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It took a couple of years before they learned that this was the reality and that I was only the beginning of what
was going to happen to them in health care...
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Ruth Rothstein
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It's November 12, 1989...
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Madalyn Schenk
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It was all so inspiring, and for young girls from the South who had led very sheltered lives, it was quite an opportunity.
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Florence Schornstein
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The only thing I felt was the lack of women role models or mentors.
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Abby Shevitz
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My father said I could do two things: he said I could be a teacher or a nurse. And that box was so small and I was so resentful of the idea
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Betsy Shure Gross
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Being a woman probably facilitated my work as an activist in gay rights...
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Mollie Wallick
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Until 1974 we had male jurors.
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Miriam Waltzer
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I have never had problems being a female... When the Dean at Curry [College] was leaving, he said, "You should have this job" and I knew
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Gertrude Webb
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[As a teenager] I was involved in the Bnos which was a religious girls organization
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Hanna Weinberg
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There were more problems between men and women than between blacks and whites. The women's movement hadn't hit yet
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Judy Frieze Wright
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I think the idea of community is that especially nowadays there's really not one community. So I think that I find and seek communities that I can find and get support in.
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Janet Yassen
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I think that being socialized as a woman is useful because my skills in relationship building
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Rebecca Yenawine
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