The Vixens of HEW

Militant feminists form a small minority of the American electorate. Yet, entrenched in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and in other federal and state bureaucracies, they behave as if they constituted an oligarchy with absolute power—all in the name of “civil rights.”

For one thing, these female zealots aspire to censorship of all school textbooks. There exists already, for instance, a Textbook Project Staff of the Office of Research of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; every member of this group is a woman (sexism?), and apparently is militant. In their words, “The major product from this work will be a comprehensive review of the literature entitled: ‘Biases against Minorities and Females in Textbooks.’”

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Russell Kirk

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Militant feminists form a small minority of the American electorate. Yet, entrenched in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and in other federal and state bureaucracies, they behave as if they constituted an oligarchy with absolute power—all in the name of “civil rights.”

For one thing, these female zealots aspire to censorship of all school textbooks. There exists already, for instance, a Textbook Project Staff of the Office of Research of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; every member of this group is a woman (sexism?), and apparently is militant. In their words, “The major product from this work will be a comprehensive review of the literature entitled: ‘Biases against Minorities and Females in Textbooks.’”