North Bay Woman Magazine
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S P R I N G | S U M M E R 2 0 2 0 NORTH BAY WOMAN 25 pelling prevailing notions about women. It launched the second feminist wave and the Women's Liberation Movement. It was a time that helped to define Jody Timms, 66, of Fairfax. "I belong to the generation of women that burned bras," she says. She got her first taste of po- litical activism in high school in the 1969-70 year, when her brother was fighting in Viet- nam. "I started going to anti-war demonstrations," she says, and it was the beginning of her interest in social issues. When she was in college, she became involved in the wom- en's movement and also got a taste of the obstacles women faced. She was in a relation- ship and wanted protection, so she went to a doctor to get a prescription for birth control pills. She was in a relationship and wanted protection, so she went to a doctor to get a pre- scription for birth controls pills. Ashe was examining her, he asked about her wedding date, and she told him she didn't have plans to get married. He stopped, informed her that he didn't give contraceptives to unmarried women, and ordered her to leave his office. "I had the experience of not being able to protect myself," she says, and the encounter illustrated the need for cultural change. "It's about what we want as human beings," she says. "It's not OK to have a hierarchy like the patriarchy. It's not right that you shouldn't count as much, because you're a woman." She later worked in health- care and taught women about their bodies and made sure they had contraceptives if they needed them. She worked at several Bay Area commu- nity clinics and then became chief of Women's Services for Marin County Health & Human Services, running the Montecito At Vera Schultz's first meeting...her male counterparts put up a sign saying, "No Women Allowed," but she tore it in two and took her seat anyway. Marin County Supervisor Vera Schultz in the doorway of her San Anselmo home, 1974. – Photograph by Emme Gilman, Photo courtesy of Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library ''