Bernice Resnick Sandler was an American women's rights activist.
13 Facts About Bernice Sandler
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Bernice Sandler 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.
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Bernice Sandler has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times.
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Bernice Sandler 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.
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Bernice Sandler 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.
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Bernice Sandler was intended to be named Beryl by her parents, but a doctor's error led to Bernice being written on her birth certificate instead.
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Bernice Sandler received a masters of clinical and school psychology in 1950.
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Bernice 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.
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Bernice Sandler was eventually admitted after comparing her situation to that of a returning veteran.
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Bernice Sandler led the creation of a monthly newsletter, On Campus with Women, to provide higher education administrators with the information needed to better understand the developments affecting women within higher education.
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Bernice Sandler was appointed to the Council by both Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
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In 1977, Bernice Sandler became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.
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Bernice Sandler's work is promoted in the 2015 documentary, An Unexpected Win: Title IX and the Pinckney Pirates, a documentary about the effect of Title IX in a Midwest town.