In 1969, Dr. Bernice R. Sandler, was working as a part-time teacher at the University of Maryland (Ware, 2007). She was turned down when she applied for a position in her department, knowing there were openings for which she was very qualified (Ware, 2007). When asked why she was not considered, a colleague said to her, you come on “too strong for a woman” After this act of discrimination, and a couple of other failed applications, she became an activist for the rights of women in education (Maryland State, 2010, para. 2). She started reading everything she could find about sex discrimination (Ware, 2007). She found a report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that examined the impacts of laws against race discrimination (Ware, 2007). She