Women have sometimes had the reputation for doing some pretty dumb things. My preacher-husband, John, and I drove to a preaching mission in Mississippi recently. Three different times, the same day, we found ourselves behind a woman (a different one each time) who signaled to make a turn, then turned the opposite direction from her signal. It reminded me of the person who said "When a woman sticks out her arm, and indicates a left turn, the only thing you can be absolutely sure of is that the window is down!"

And women are often accused of having no economic sense (nobody really deserves such generalities). Untold cartoons have been drawn and stories told of women’s inability to balance a checkbook. Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead comics have not done the reputation much good either. It has be…