Last time I spoke about a wonderful women’s author, “Shelly Rachanow,” now she has a companion book out, in beautiful baby blue entitled, “What Would You Do if You Ran the World?” The book is full of “everyday ideas from women who want to Make the World a Better Place…”
The remarkable thing about Shelly was that she emailed me and sent me a signed copy of her new book as a gift! She would not accept payment from me. So, I read her new book cover-to-cover and it was good, really good.
Lists of things women can do for themselves, to pamper themselves. Quotes from really famous people like,” Oprah Winfrey, ”...Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe your doing it…” Goldie Hawn, Rachel Carson and many more.
One of my favorite inspirational stories in Shelly’s new book is about,”...Patsy Mink, who was born in Maui in 1927…denied admission to twenty medical schools, why because she lacked a “Y” chromosome…she decided that the schools that denied her admission would not have the last word…so she became a lawyer and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1951 and became the first woman of Japanese heritage to practice law in Hawaii. Just one of her greatest achievements did for herself and for women was the drafting of Title IX, which was enacted on June 23, 1972, and which mandated equal support for males and females in academics and athletics on any instruction receiving federal money.
Title IX allowed schools to allow preventing women from becoming doctors or joining a men’s sports team (that does not have a girl’s sport team. They must allow young girls who want to join the boy’s team and visa versa.) As shelly says, “speak out and stand on your own!” More exceptional stories, quotes and good stuff can be found in her book available from www.amazon.com
