There certainly are a lot of scared, angry men these days. Scared of women. And angry about what women have and still can accomplish. Those scared and angry people (sadly, all are probably not men) are so concerned they’ve concocted myriad efforts across this great United States to limit what women can do – from carry or not carry children, to voting and even to working by seeming to fight funding for child care.
But none of it will work.
Women will not be kept down, and there is no better time to talk about it than during March – Women’s History Month.
We prefer to think of Women’s History Month as Women’s Accomplishments and Future Month.
Just this past week, Chattanooga gained its first female police chief when former Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Celeste Murphy was confirmed here by the Chattanooga City Council.