Comments on: Is There a War on Women? http://nancysims.com/congress/is-there-a-war-on-women/ by Nancy Sims. Parent, Public Relations, Professor, Pundit, Ponderer. Thoughts about my world. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Jack Najarian http://nancysims.com/congress/is-there-a-war-on-women/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:44:11 +0000 http://nancysims.com/?p=348#comment-1440 Just based on my experience in Illinois the past couple of years, I’ve realized that the attitude towards women is very different. I am spending this summer in Chicago, and the other day I met a woman who grew up in Houston and went to college at U of H. She eventually left Houston to work in New York before settling in Chicago. Her main complain about Houston was that it was “too much of a good ‘ol boys club.” I think an argument can be made that Houston still has some maturing to do in terms of breaking away from its historical good ol boys culture especially if is driving talent out of the city. But I am not writing here to rag on my hometown. I am writing to say that there’s really no excuse that we cannot be better, and we need to continue to push forward.

There is a famous interview of then chief counsel of the NAACP, Thurgood Marshall in which he is asked if integration should be more gradual. He replies something along the lines of “I think 100 years is gradual enough.” Whatever gradual attempts we have instituted are not working and we need to do something to breakdown cultural barriers and make it happen.

Although I do have to admit, I still want my future wife to carry my last name and if not that, at the very least, have our children carry mine.

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