One day in a book store I found this book, “If Women Ran the World Sh_t Would Get Done.” President Bush was still in office and as I scanned the pages I was thinking maybe if we had a woman in the Presidential Office, she would “get things done!” I believe I read this book cover-to-cover, once, twice, three times. Being a self proclaimed “pro feminist male, I thought this would be a perfect book for our Code Pinks Boston Book Club.
It’s very “purse size,” it has only 151 pages, it’s a lovely shade of light pink which I love, and it makes you think with lovely exercises that woman can fill out and dream about. Plus, as author Shelly Rachanow states on the front cover: It’ celebrates all the wonderful, amazing, stupendous, inspiring, butt-kicking things woman do…” And the woman does these things and follow through with them.
After I read the book, I emailed Shelly and just praised her book, ”...doing for our families, nurture, protect and heal…”
Not only did Shelly email me back, she joined our Code Pinks Meet-up group, and she even sent me a signed copy of her book. She didn’t have to do that but, she did. I find Shelly to be an extraordinary and amazing woman. Her book can be found on:www.amazon.com
I remember one Bill Cosby episode where both Bill and his wife was sick in bed and their kids were arguing about how they were taking care of their parents. Who got up sick in bed? Not Bill, it was his wife and she said, “from this point on, I am declaring myself, “well” and it’s the only way I can handle the household without our kids tearing up the place.” She was getting things done!
You won’t find the “Bill Cosby show” in Shelly’s book, instead you will find a story about Patricia Schroeder, ”...who was first elected to (the US) Congress in 1972, and she served twelve consecutive terms as a Representative from Colorado before she retired from Congress in 1996!...”A mother of two children at the time she was first elected, she was committed to “making things better for all women.” As shelly stated on page 40 of her book in bullet form what Patricia Schroeder did was,”...Wrote the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993 Introduced the Military Family Act which was passed in 1985; Chaired the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families and Co-chaired the Congressional Congress on Women’s Issue. She was elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1995 due in part to her “unblinking commitment to represent the interests of women and their families at the highest levels of government…” ”...Thanks to her efforts, life is easier for millions of civilian wives and moms living today, check out www.greatwomen.org
Here’s one of my favorite parts of Shelly’s book,”...It’s hard to believe that in this day and age, not all women are free to call or see their girlfriends, let alone talk freely when they are given the chance to be with other women…If women ran the world, no husband, father, brother, or government law or agency would ever have power, permission or the legal right to control what a woman thinks or her freedom to share her thoughts with other women…” ‘Chocolate and ice cream therapy time with girlfriends would be an inalienable right listed in every constitution…”
There’s so much more in Shelly Rachanow’s book and would be a great “pass her book around” at a party or better yet, order additional copies and have your guests fill out their own copies, you won’t be sorry if you do. Peace.
