Bernice Sandler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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women's rights activist
Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1928
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 05-Jan-2019
Profession: feminist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Bernice Sandler
- Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist born in New York.
- Sandler is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with Representatives Edith Green (D-OR) and Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in the 1970s.
- She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times.Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards women on campus, coining the terms "gang rape" and "the chilly campus climate".She received numerous awards and honors for her work on women's rights and was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2010, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.
- Some of her papers are currently held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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