It’s Women’s History Month. Every year, leftists respond to it by claiming that “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” The suggestion is that history was shaped by women who were angry and acted up (such as bra-burners), not women who behaved in more conventional ways like getting married and having a family. But that’s wrong. While 20 women did publicly burn their bras in New York City in 1980, those antics didn’t lead to any changes in law or policy, which occurred mostly in the preceding 1970s. There was no bra-burning at all at the famous 1968 women’s protest at which bra-burning supposedly occurred.
The women who make history tend to have good grades, strong marriages, and kids. Here are some examples:
Indira Gandhi was the first (and only) female prime minister of India, the world’s second most populous country, leading India for 16 years. She got married, had two kids, and then entered politics. She didn’t become prime minister until her kids were grown up.
Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, and its longest-serving modern prime minister, leading Britain for more than 11 years. She got married and had two kids, raising them to adulthood before she became prime minister. She graduated with honors from Oxford, with a degree in chemistry, and then worked as a research chemist.
The first woman elected to lead a Muslim country was Benazir Bhutto, the first and only female prime minister of Pakistan. She was married, and had three kids. She was a good student who earned a degree from Harvard.
Turkey’s first and only female prime minister, Tansu Çiller, was married and had two children.
Golda Meir was the first and only female prime minister of Israel, and the first female head of government in the Middle East. She graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class, and got married and had two kids.
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize, Marie Curie, got married and had kids. (She was a pioneering physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.).
Below is Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Çiller in 1994:
Tansu Çiller in Brussels.
