![]() ![]() I can't stay unhappy for more than five minutes,” she told The Sun in April 1972, after earning a federal award for distinguished service. ![]() I didn't eat my heart and guts out over it. “If I've met with discrimination, it came at a time when women were conditioned to expect it. Her 29 years in the agency began as a stenographer, and her rise coincided with women's liberation - a movement she embraced as “the 2-by-4 that women have used to get attention,” she once said. She once described herself to The Baltimore Sun as “5 feet, 3 1/4 inches, 105 fighting pounds.” Crenson was a Bronx-tough petite with a pixie haircut. The 98-year-old spent her career challenging social constraints that hindered women in the workplace.Īs the administration's chief press officer in the 1970s, Mrs. Charlotte Crenson, one of the highest-ranking women in the Social Security Administration in her day, died of pneumonia Dec. ![]()
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