Crazy.” She also claimed to Fallaci that “to me the fact of being a woman has never, never, I say, been an obstacle.” (Hugo Mendelson/GPO)īut just a moment later, Meir denounced the burgeoning feminist movement as “those crazy women who burn their bras and go around all disheveled and hate men.
Minister Golda Meir (far left) attends a cabinet meeting of the first government of Israel led by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion (center) in Tel Aviv on May 1, 1949.
“She was blamed for the war, she was blamed for other things, people didn’t like the way she looked, people didn’t like that she was old,” Lahav told The Times of Israel in a phone interview last week from her home outside Boston. Now a new book from academic Pnina Lahav, titled “ The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power,” seeks to reexamine Meir’s legacy through the lens of her gender and better understand how being a woman shaped her history, affected her decision making and influenced how she was viewed. But she also shied away from fully embracing the women’s rights movement, often viewing it as an impediment to other goals. Meir was so ahead of her time that almost 50 years later, nobody has managed to follow in her footsteps. Throughout her lengthy career as an activist and politician, Meir, who served as Israel’s leader in 1969-1974, largely eschewed the label, despite having shattered Israel’s glass ceiling. Were you to have asked the former Israeli prime minister - the first and still only woman to hold the job - the answer would likely have been no.
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