[bejazd]

As far as NPC membership goes, I think the worst of times isn't confined to a particular era but rather a mindset, when women were excluded from membership because of their race, religion or social standing in their hometown. While it's far from perfect, there's never been a better time than now for a woman to participate in recruitment and be evaluated based on her own merits...not her legacy status, or who wrote her ref etc. I'm glad my experience was being part of a chapter that was full of women from all kinds of different socio-economic, racial and religious backgrounds. Those women enriched me and my life, and that's what our Founders intended for our sisterhood to be about!