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Bernice Sandler (Bernice Resnick) was born on 3 March, 1928 in New York City, U.S., is an American women's rights activist (1928–2019). Discover Bernice Sandler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

Popular As Bernice Resnick
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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 3 March, 1928
Birthday 3 March
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Date of death 2019
Died Place Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality United States

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1928

Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist.

Sandler was born Bernice Resnick on March 3, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York City.

She was the second daughter of Ida Ernst Resnick and Abraham Hyman, Jewish immigrants from Russia and Germany who owned a women's clothing store in Rockaway, New Jersey.

She was intended to be named Beryl by her parents, but a doctor's error led to Bernice being written on her birth certificate instead.

The nickname "Bunny" is derived from a Yiddish translation of Bernice, Bunya.

1930

At the time of its founding in 1930, Brooklyn College "was envisioned as a stepping stone for the sons and daughters of immigrants and working-class people toward a better life through a superb—and at the time, free—college education."

Furthering her education, she enrolled in the masters program at the City College of New York.

Historically, City College had been seen as "the poor man's Harvard" and had only recently begun admitting women into its graduate programs.

1948

After Sandler graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, she attended Brooklyn College where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's of science in psychology 1948.

Sandler also happened to attend "the city’s first public coeducational liberal arts college."

1950

Sandler received a masters of clinical and school psychology in 1950.

1951

In 1951, the institution became coeducational.

1954

The following year, Resnick married Jerrold Sandler, an educational broadcaster who became champion for public radio funding, and had two children with him: Deborah Jo in 1954 and Emily Maud in 1956.

1964

The couple moved to Washington, D.C. in 1964, where she applied for a graduate degree at the University of Maryland but was rejected due to her age.

She was eventually admitted after comparing her situation to that of a returning veteran.

1965

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, which was originally focused on, "equal employment opportunity in Government employment, employment by Federal contractors and subcontractors and employment under Federally assisted construction contracts regardless of race, creed, color or national origin."

1967

In 1967, Johnson amended the executive order through Executive Order 11375, which specifically added sex discrimination as a category protected by the previous Executive Order.

This minor amendment by Johnson, paved the way forward for Sandler, providing her with the legal footing necessary to bring legal complaints against non-compliant higher education institutions.

Through this discovery, Sandler worked with the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance at the Department of Labor, Vincent Macaluso, and through her position with the WEAL, she began to file class-action lawsuits against colleges and universities nationwide.

Although the barrage of over 250 lawsuits against higher education institutions was successful in generating attention toward the issue, it did little to generate significant federal enforcement on the issues at hand.

1968

The WEAL was an organization active from 1968 to 1989, which was primarily focused on utilizing legal action and lobbying to enhance the status of women across the country.

The now defunct organization is best known for its work overseeing the implementation of, "the contract compliance executive order as it applied to sex discrimination."

In between her time as Chair of the Action Committee at WEAL she was also hired as an Education Specialist for the Special Subcommittee on Education, Committee on Education and Labor for the U.S. House of Representatives.

It was during her time on the Special Subcommittee on Education that Sandler helped to support hearings that had a direct focus on gender discrimination within education and employment matters.

1969

In 1969, she received her Ed.D. in counseling and personnel services, minoring in psychology and social work.

Immediately following the completion of her Ed.D., Sandler applied to a variety of teaching positions for which she was qualified, but was continually turned down for a variety of reasons.

In one interview she was told, "she came on too strong for a woman."

As a result of her frustration, she joined the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) as the Chair of the Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance from 1969 to 1971.

1971

In 1971, she became the deputy director of the Women's Action Program within the Department of Health’s Education and Welfare section.

While at the Department of Health, Sandler worked on sex discrimination in education issues.

As a self-proclaimed "believer in bibliotherapy," Sandler turned to reading to help come to terms with the situation.

While reading a report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, she discovered an executive order that prohibited federal contractors from discrimination on a variety of factors that was recently amended to include sex discrimination.

1972

She is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s.

She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times.

Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards women on campus, coining the phrase "the chilly campus climate".

1978

The two divorced in 1978.

Sandler worked a series of odd jobs as a research assistant, nursery school teacher, a guitar instructor, and as a secretary as a result of moving repeatedly with her husband.

While she was living in Bloomington, Indiana, she began working as a research assistant in psychology at Indiana University but she was rejected from the graduate program, due to a quota surrounding women graduate students.

2010

She received numerous awards and honors for her work on women's rights and was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2010, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.

Some of her papers are held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.