Ginie Sayles

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GINIE SAYLES is the founder of The Ginie Sayles Scholarship For Single Parents, which was funded from the royalties of one of her books; and she represents a generation of women who experienced some of the last vestiges of bias against women in education, finance, career, and controversial viewpoints. But it was through her books that she became a pop culture media personality for the last decade of the 20th century.

In the late 1960s, Sayles went through college on Welfare and a Student Loan as a divorced Mother. At that time, women could not receive a loan without the approval of their husbands, even if they were in the process of a divorce, which delayed her application until her divorce was final.

She taught Junior and Senior High School and was voted Teacher Of The Year by a student body of 700 students.

Sayles became Public Relations fora major Opera company in 1972-73 and Editor of their Opera Magazine.

As Women's Liberation forged new inroads for women in finance; Sayles became the 2nd woman Stockbroker in Lubbock, TX and the only female stockbroker for E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc in Lubbock.

But Sayles is most noted as a pop culture personality of the 1990s with controversial books, such as How To WIN Pageants. The book was written at a time when pageants were scorned; but Sayles focused on pageants as a tool to bring attention to specific causes, such as Miss Wheelchair America. She also pointed out that pageants were early methods for women to attain educational funding, such as The Single Largest Scholarship In The World For Women, Miss America.

A Senior Editor at Berkley Books (Penguin-Putnam)asked Sayles to write How To Marry The Rich, which funded the scholarship for single parents. It was then that Sayles noted women's last hurdle is the bias against women who have controversial viewpoints.

She became a serious figure of the 1990s when serious Media, such as PBS "Social Class In America," The Wall Street Journal,and Fortune Magazine's Billionaire issue gave respect to her controversial books, followed by World-wide media which made her name Internationally known.

Retired from public life at the turn of the new century, Sayles was an important symbol of a pop culture of excess in America during the 1990s - and her life represents that of women in the final decade of the 20th century.