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BROADSIPE. HOUSTON-: CHAPTER •

National Organization For 'Jomen No. 2

Susan B.Anthony

1820-1906

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Happy sBirthday

February 15 will be the 151st anniversary of Susan E. Anthony’s birth. Her contribution to our lives is immeasurable. By the example of her life, she crave to venerations of women the courave and the stamina to demand their legal, economic, and political equality.

Yet on February 15. few will take note of her contributions. (By an executive order, George Washington will usurp the date this year.) In a country that celebrates National Hot Dog Week, it is the rule rather than the exception that birthdates of outstanding women in our history go un­heralded .

At the root of this problem is that public schools fail to teach and textbooks fail to inform of women’s proud heritage. What schoolchild knows the life of Susan B.Anthony, the contributions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth? What high school student is aware that Anna Ella Carroll devised the military plan which U.S. Grant followed in his Tennessee River Campaign--the strategy which, for the first time, gained the upper hand for the Union and turned the tide of the Civil War.

If woman’s past is largely Ignored, her future is also threatened. In a more dangerous and insidious way our literature and our textbooks encourage and perpetuate a subtle prejudice against women. The books children read too often provide instruction in sexually-ascribed social roles and in the sexual basis of power relationships. In most primers, brothers are older (and wiser) than sisters. In children’s books women are mommies and mommies do not work. If women appear rarely as workers, it is in stereotyped white-collar jobs-- receptionist, telephone operator,secretary. Mostly, their ’’career" is marriage, and that lesson is taught early.

Textbooks for the Houston Public Schools are being selected. The proposed textbooks may be examined in the professional library of the School Administration Building. Anyone can make written application to be heard at the school board meeting when textbook recommendations are considered this spring.

Central New Jersey NOW is conducting a survey of grades 1-6 readers. That chapter is coordinating all efforts nationally. Houston NOW should also be involved in this program. Anyone who is interested in seeing women gain their rightful place in history and securing women greater represen­tation in the future would do well to turn their efforts .to this project.

NEWSLETTER CO-EDITORS

Helen CassidyLaura Douglas

February 8—-WOMEN TALKING (A FEMINIST FILM)—8:00 p.m. Forth Worth Room, University Center, University of Houston. $1.00 admission. Kate Millett, Betty Frledan and others talk about women’s liberation.

February 10—NOW MEETS—8:00p.m. at Houston Bank <5c Trust Building. Sixth Floor Auditorium. ABORTION IN TEXAS, a program presented by the Abortion Task Force.

February 15—SUSAN B. ANTHONY’S BIRTHDAYFebruary 2U-—NOW MEETS—8:00 p.m. at Houston Bank & Trust Building. Sixth

Floor Auditorium. Business meeting.February-----LOCAL TEXAS ABORTION.COALITION MEETINGS— Dates and times have

not yet been set. For information call Lydia Pendley (522-^520) Debbie Leonard (522-5776), or Jo Nelson (655-4520).

LOCAL BOARD SUPPORTSF.C.C. PETITION

Robert Lopez, chairman of the Minority Construction Employment Alliance, Inc. of Houston has sign­ed a statement supporting a peti­tion filed by the National Organi­zation for Women with the Federal Communications Commission.

The NOW petition asks the F. C.C. require that radio and tele­vision licensees file written plans on action taken to hire and upgrade women in radio and television.

NOW is seeking support from women’s, civic, religious, and ci­vil liberties and rights organiza­tions to support their petition.

The Minority Construction Em­ployment Alliance, Inc., formerly the Houston Minorities Council, is a non-profit organization comprised of Houston area minority groups, minority group contractors, local labor unions in the various build­ing trades, and various government advisors. The purpose of the cor­poration is to negotiate an agree­ment which will give greater oppor­tunities for training and employ­ment in Houston area construction Industry.

Barbara Farley, Employment Task Force Chairman of Houston NOW, is a voting delegate.

The Child Care Task Force is still conducting a survey of day care facilities in Houston. The 4 questionnaires will provide the ba­sis for factual and more effective 4 lobbying for decent day care centers in the state. Anyone interested in , filling out a questionnaire should contact the task force chairman, Nancy Callen at 464-8030. '

7M5The Houston Area NOW Chapter is

filing a complaint-a-month with the Office of Federal Contract Compli­ance. This is being done as part of the national cycle of complaints called for by NOW in order to gain government enforcement of the Execu­tive Order which bans discrimination against women by federal contractors.

If you have questions about the Houston Area NOW Chapter or any as­pect of women’s rights call one of the following numbers:

A.M. P.M.464-8030 522-5776623-4380 665-829^665-8294

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employ her because of her marriage. Her husband’s job was never threat­ened .

The American Association of University Professors standards re­quire notification of termination one year in advance. These stan­dards have by accepted by SHSU.

Ms. Mallard plans to appeal her case to the president of SHSU and to the Board of Regents of the Upper State Universities as well as to the AAUP.

Betty Parker Mallard, a member of the piano faculty at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tex-, as, for three years, has been in­formed that her job will be termi­nated at the end of the 1971 spring semester. She is being fired because in September, 1970, she married Harry Mallard, a musicologist at the same university.

Sam Houston has a policy against nepotism. Anyone who is in anyway related to a faculty member may not teach at the school. This is a stric­ter application of the state nepo­tism law. The state law forbids a person to be employed if related to anyone who is in a position to pro­mote or increase his salary. Ms. Mallard’s husband is not in such a positionc

Since Ms. Mallard married, her husband has received all her checks and he was Informed of her termina­tion before she was notified. The letter she received from h-sr depart­ment head said the music department was happy with her qualifications and her work, but could no longer

’’There is something every woman wears around her neck on a thin chain of fear—an amulet of madness. For each of us, there exists somewhere a moment of Insult so Intense that she will reach up and rip the amulet off, even if the chain tears at the flesh of her neck. And the last protection from seeing the truth will be gone. Do you think, tugging furtively every day at the chain and going nicely insane as I am, that I can be concerned with the puerile squabbles of a counterfeit Left that laughs at my pain? Do you think such a concern is noticeable when set alongside the suffering of more than half the human species for the past 5»000 years--due to the whim of the other half? No, no, no, goodbye to all that."

Robin Morgan, "Goodbye to All That,” from Rat:Subterran­ean News,2,27 (February 6,1970).

A reprint of this article as well as reprints of other feminist artl cles can be obtained from KNOW,INC., P.O. Box 1C197, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15232. Send stamped self-addressed envelope for 3 free lists. Reporters You Can Trust, Publications of the Women's Movement, Articles on Women’s Role, Price List. "Goodbye to All lhat' is 15/ plus postage.

WOMAN GAINS A HUSBAND. LOSES JOB...

Citizens' Hearings on AbortionOver 300 persons heard doctors,

lawyers, clergymen, nurses, and wom­en who have undergone illegal abor­tions plea for a change in abortion laws at a day-long session of Citi­zen Hearings on Abortion. The hearings, sponsored by the Texas Abortion Coalition, were held at theUniversity of Texas in Austin, Jan­uary 30.

Sarah Weddington, state chair­man of TAC and the attorney who won her case to have Texasn * * * 1 present abor-

child for adoption after being un­able to secure a safe abortion,.

At the conclusion of the hear­ings, about 100 persons marched a mile to the State Capitol where a rally was held. They then adjourned to the Capitol to make personal ap­peals to the legislators. Only a handful of representatives and sena­tors were in their offices. Only two representatives responded to the TAC invitation to attend the citi­zen's hearings.

tion law declared unconstitutional by a three-judge federal panel in 1970, moderated the hearings.

The most eloquent testimony came from women who have been victimized by the present abortion laws. Six women related their experiences with Illegal abortions. One woman told of the agony and guilt she suffered when she placed her Illegitimate

At a TAC state steering commit tee meeting following the day's ac­tivities the group decided to lobby for total repeal of Texas abortion laws. Evelyn Sell and Judy Smith, both of Austin,will serve as commu­nication coordinators for TAC. When the legislature takes up the issue of abortion reform, they will notify Interested organizations and Individuals so local activities and a state rally can be held.

THE CITIZENS SPEAKnI crammed the corner of a largebook into my stomach again and againand. again until I couldn't stand the pain anymore. I did it again the next day and the next until Istarted hemorrhaging."A woman testifying of her self-in­duced abortion, TAC hearings, Jan.30

"Freedom from compulsory pregnancy is necessary to the liberty of wom­en and men. It Is a fundamental human right. Only the woman should be required to consent to her own abortion. Men who think they own their women should be sterilized." Roy Lucas, the nation's leading abortion lawyer, TAC hearings, J an o 30

"A woman's right to control her own body is the Issue. Everything else 1s garbage."Dr. Harvey Karmon.head of the Los Angeles abortion clinic, TAC hear­ings, Jan. 30

"We use marriage as a rug under which to sweep our social mistakes."The Rev. Mr. Bob Brelhan,director of the Methodist Student Center, Uni­versity of Texas, TAC hearings, Jan. 30

"Life has no beginning and no end. All life is simply a continuum. Any point Is arbitrary. Ova and sperm are life too. Abortion 1s an in- teruptlon in the continuum of life to preserve the quality of life. We must not concentrate on embryonic cells Instead of existing lifeo" Dr. Jame Hodgson,St. Paul doctor convicted of violating Minnesota's abortion laws, TAC hearings, Jan.30

"Today I can hold my head erect as a result of being an abortionist. Before the liberalization of Cali­fornia abortion laws, I was forced to tell desperate young women, open­ly or surreptitiously to get an abortion in Mexico."Dr. John Miller, author of Child­birth : A Manual of Pregnancy and Delivery, TAC hearings, Jan. 30

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SUSAN B.ANTHONY by ?etty Earn-^s

February 15, 1820-- March 13, 1906

Susan Erownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. She was reared as a strict Quaker—a religious rroup in which women spoke as readily as men. She worked as a schoolteacher during the early years of her life. While teaching, Susan became actively involved in the temperance movement. She soon discovered that women were not to speak but to listen and learn.

Continually confronted with the idea that women should not speak in public on any subject, Susan came to feel that women’s rights were inex­tricably interwoven into the cause of temperance. Encouraged by such figures as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone, Susan soon decided women’s rights came first and devoted her life to that cause.

In 1856, Susan also became act- ive_ln the Abolitionist Movement. She continued to speak ds eloquently acrainst slavery as for women until the Civil War, often facing strong abuse from mobs, for neither cause was a popular onec

Before and during the Civil War, the Abolitionists had been staunch supporters of women’s rightSo After the war, relations began to cool. The former friends began to proclaim this "the Negro’s Hour."

In 1868, Susan and about 100 women left the Equal Rights Associ­ation and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. The Equal Rights Association had committed It­self to support the Fifteenth Amend­ment which excluded women from the vote, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan’s closest friend, became president of the new group, with Susan as a prom­inent worker and organizer.

In 1872, after considerable thought, Susan decided that the Fourteenth Amendment could be Inter­preted to give women the vote. She and 15 other women registered to vote and voted in Rochester, New York. The women were charged with voting illegally. Susan alone was tried. During the trial, she was not al­lowed to speak. The judge ignored all rules of law and justice and in­sisted that the verdict be guilty. Susan was fined $100 which she re­fused to pay.

"May it please your Honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your un­just penalty. All the stock in trade that I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my pa­per, the Revolutlon, four years ago, the sole object of which was to ed­ucate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man­made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison, and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the Government;and I shall work on with might and maim to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny will go to this unjust claim."

The judge refused to jail her for non-payment and therefore Susan lost any chance for appeal to the Supreme Court, an appeal that might have changed the course of women’s suffrageo

The battle lost, Susan continued to fight the war, working for an amendment to the Constitution guaran­teeing women the right to vote. She continued to circulate petitions, go on lecture tours, and lobby in Wash­ington for this "Sixteenth Amendment0"

It was not until 1890 that the first major success was won. In that year Wyoming became the first state to give women the vote. That year women’s suffrage supporters were united into one organlzatlono Much to Susan’s joy, the American Woman Suffrage Association (led by

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making it- -ksvs aenTMesTT,®B$E89BB EBim"This is what I want to do.

Everythin? else I did seemed like preparation for what I wanted to do. And now I’m doing it." Kaye Morthcott is editor of The Texas Observer, the state’s only independent journal of liberal opinion, published fort­nightly. Although she doesn’t be­long to any women’s liberation group she leads "a women’s lib-type of life."

"I remember that I always re­sented my mother’s role and was more interested in my father’s." Unable to see herself fitting into a way •i of life as limiting and repetitious as housework, she decided on a ca­reer. "I always wanted to have a career, but when I thought of having one, I thought of being an old maid. It was all rather grim. It’s ano­ther myth women learn. Instead, I have found my career to be an exub­erant experience."

Kaye took what she describes as the "usual route" to get to her pres­ent position. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas In I96U and went East. Career women going to New York to find a job was, she dis­covered, another myth. Unable to find a satisfactory job, she returned to Texas. She worked for the Hous­ton Chronicle and later for Newsweek. Unsatisfied, she returned to the University of Texas to get her M.A. While there,she was editor of the Dally Texan and was politicized by Frank Erwin, former chairman of the U.T. Board of Regents. At one point Erwin threatened to discontinue the Texan’s editorial page If Kaye didn’t quit writing "dovish" editor­ials on Viet Nam.

After receiving her master’s, she worked for the Capitol Bureau of American Newspapers, Inc. for nine months and later for the Houston Post. While at the Post, she learned of an opening on The Texas Observer, applied for it, and got the job. She was co-edltor under Greg Olds and is now the editor. Her co-editor is Nolly Ivins, who was chosen because "She was the best qualified and not because she was a

woman."

According to Kaye, "The Impor­tant thing about women’s liberation is that it is emotionally liberating. I have less emotional hang-ups and a healthier relationship with men." Part of this emotional liberation as she sees it is getting away from the stereotyped view of a career and marriage.

She doesn’t Intend to give up her career and Is not averse to marriage. Her view of combining the two is different from most. "Narrlage is okay, but the hang-up is children. Ny idea of marriage is to get up to a good breakfast, go to work, come home to a nice hot meal, dandle the kids on my knee, and go to bed."

SUSAN B. ANTHONY CONT’D.

Lucy Stone) joined the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1892, Susan became the president of the new organization. At the age of 80, after serving eight years, she re­signed, although she continued to work for women’s suffrage almost as busily as before.

Gradually, however, Susan began to succumb to age. In 1906 she con­tracted pneumonia. She died on Narch 13, 1906. One of the few com­plaints she ever uttered was that she must die before women could vote. On her deathbed she said, "Just think of it. I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of jus­tice no bigger than that, and yet I must die without obtaining It. Oh, It seems so cruel!"

At the memorial service, Carrie Chapman Catt expressed the feelings of women all over the nation when she said, "We have not lost a leader alone, but a dear, dear friend, whose place can never be filled. We shall never see her like again."

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MALE CHAUVINIST PIGS SPEAK .'>UT —Prodded by Barbara Lane Farley

nI believe in equal pay for equal work but..(l) I never had a male secretary!” (2)1 don't hire women in my business."

"Women's Lib is OK by me. I'm gonna retire and let my wife support me. Hee Haw! (Could he live on the sal­ary our society allows women and his wife to make?)

"I don't want my wife to work." (What does he think she does now- at home? )

"Women are too emotional to handle responsible jobs." ( Yet more men than women (1) commit suicide,(2)be- come insane,(3) become alcoholic, (^•) commit violent "emotlonar* crimes, and (5) succumb to illnesses, such as ulcers, high blood pressure, and heart attack, which are aggravated if not Induced by excessive emotion.

"Women marry to have a meal ticket." (If he really believes this he (1) should never marry or (2) should be strongly supporting women workers in their drive for equal employment opportunities.)

NATIONAL BOARD KNOCKS SEXISM

The National Organization for Women called Houston a city of the past in its sexist attitudes. The charge was made at a press confer­ence January 18 in Houston.

The session with the press concluded a three-day meeting in Houston (January 15-1?) of the NOW national board of directors. Alleen Hernandez, national president, said: "Houston ranks Number 1—actually M-6 of U-6 cities-- in sex discrimi­nation, according to information compiled by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission hearings held here last summer."

The national officers also called for a fair and just trial for black militant scholar Angela Davis, charged with murder in California.

NOW officers also condemned the Inhumane, insensitive statements of Vice President Spiro Agnew who virtually recommended forced steri­lization for welfare mothers in a recent California speech.

Wilma Scott Heide, Chairwoman of the NOW Board, said: "Perhaps the Vice President, as a man, should consider the responsibility of males for unwanted pregnancies and suggest vasectomies as a solution."

NOW officers also blasted the rigid and blatant sex discrimina­tion that is apparently national policy for American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

A dramatic example of that com­pany's sexist policies and reluc­tance to obey the laws of this country is the case of Lorena Weeks of Wadley, Georgia.,

Southern Bell Telephone Com­pany continues to deny Ms. Weeks a switchman job six years after her application and a full two years after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in her favor in a suit brought by NOW attorney Sylvia Roberts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

mother wins case

Women won the first case on Job discrimination against females to be heard by the United States Supreme Court. The Court ruled unan­imously that under the 196/+ Federal Civil Rights Act an employer who has men with young children on the pay­roll cannot automatically refuse to hire women with preschoolers at home0

An employer must show, case by case, how a mother's domestic situa­tion will prevent her from doing an adequate job. She cannot be rejected simply because she is a woman.

The decision was by no means a complete victory. The Court indica­ted that a woman with children at home may be somehow less likely than a man with children to do a job well. Under the 196^ law such a woman could be turned down according to the court.

In a concurring opinion, Jus­tice Thurgood Marshall expressed his concern about the court's ruling. A company's requirements that workei provide for the care of their chil­dren so their work is not affected, he said, must apply to men and women equally. Marshall said he feared '•the court has fallen into the trap of assuming that the Act permits ancient canards about the proper role of women to be a basis for dis­crimination.'*

The Justice Department and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund brought the test case on be­half of Ida Phillips of Orlando, Florida, against the Martin-Marietta Corporation. A receptionist at that company had turned away Ms. Phillips, mother of seven young children.

The Legal Defense Fund and the Justice Department brought the case to the Court to safeguard the jobs of more than four million women who are in the job market and have young children at home. Many of these women are black. About one-third are either the sole support of their households or have husbands with in­comes below $5000 annually.

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If you think you are being dis­criminated against in employment because of your sex, write to: Chairman William Brown, III Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission1800 G Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20506

Also available from the same address is a pamphlet, "Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex," which explains about what is and what is not considered discrimina­tion.

WOMEN IIS. MEN DRIVERSAccording to the Institute of

Transportation and Traffic Englneer- ing(ITTE)at UCLA, 22 percent of all automobile accidents and 48 percent of all highway fatalities in the last decade may be attributed to drivers who fell asleep at the wheel.

A recent German study Indicates that women have more stamina and en­durance over a long driving haul than men.

Women take fewer risks at all times, hence make fewer mistakes. And during night driving, women re­act immediately to the first sign of drowsiness, turning on the radio or singing to keep themselves awake, while the men are lulled by a false sense of confidence into dangerous drowsiness at the wheel.

lettersTo the Editors:

I would like to offer some com­ments after reading Nancy Galleys brief critique of "Five Easy Pieces." I do not care to suggest that Nancy Callers anger is misplaced, nor that her objections, being essentially po­litical ones, are invalid. I do in­sist, however, that the film should be viewed from a larger perspective than that which N.C. presented in her review.

N.C. rightly deplores the depic­tion of the women characters in the film as "stupid...snivelers," dis­tinguished from one another princi­pally by the degree to which they articulate their subservience to men. It is clear that the women in this story are subordinate to the men who surround them, living out their lives in the structured roles perpetrated on them by social patterns. One even submits in the face of sexist epi­thets (Penis Envy), probably because she knew no other role, no other .* possibility of responding than the meek "smile-both hands-on-the-dishes" syndrome.

Rather than responding to the depiction of these characters (which generally are quite real), it seems to me that Nancy Callen could have pointed out the fact of these char­acters, and their parallels in the Real World. Texas is populated with Rayettes, and likewise the rest of the country. They know no age or educational distinctions: their dif­ferences are matters of style, not of consciousness. Rayettes, Cath­erines, Bobbys,and Carls also exist among homosexuals who have not learned to throw off the sexist stereotypes fed them by society, among blacks and chicanos, and yes, among men who likewise are caught in roles offering them nothing but the continuation of destructive social relationships. I do not think Bob Rafelson should be criticized for depicting relationships as they ex­ist (And did they not exist in' their sexist destructiveness, there would be no function for NOW, or other similar organizations.).

American society is one in which roles are structured according to sex, among other things, and sex roles prescribe particular channels of

communication among the sexes (There are more than two.). Although I do not consider it the objective of "Five Easy Pieces" to have presented this particular view of things, it is certain to me that among the "meanings" that can be had from this film is the notion that people do not talk to each other. It is sTg- nificant that the only real attempt Bobby made to talk to anyone was to his father, on the shore of the lake, when, unfortunately, it was too late. People Just do not drop barriers con­comitant with the sex roles they have learned. It is in this respect that you have your work cut out.

Finally, I would like to say something in the face of N.C.'s last paragraph, which concerns his­tory, or the re-writing of it. N.C. suggests that a movie "which por­trayed black people in such a way would not be tolerated." Perhaps it would not, and to my mind, that would be unfortunate. I should tend to think that history (and by this I mean aggregate events and not the recording of them) would best be rewritten by the concerted effort of people to intervene in the process of changing the social system. Art reflects a consciousness, hopefully not banal. I would have considered it more dishonest of Rafelson to have presented a host of extremely liberated women in this film, when, in fact, this host would be difficult to assemble, even in Paradise. I must add, for balance, that he would be hard pressed to find a similar host of liberated men. The fact is that we have worn out the ancient but venerable ways of relating to one another, and all need liberty to try new ones.

As inarticulate as it is, my point is that all of us who feel the weight of sexist categorization should be less inclined to wipe out the symbols of our repression than to use them as a source from which to draw strength. There will be no need to destroy stereotypes when the consciousness of all people is raised to the level of awareness of sexist structures. They will disappear, and people can be people, regardless of sex.

Off Sexism! Charles Williams Cambridge, Mass.

READING LISTMarriage In Life And Literature,Robert Seidenberg,M.D., Philosophical Li­brary, Inc. 65.95

A psychiatrist’s analysis of marriage and the marital contract as re­quiring excessive renunciation of living from the woman. He is the hus­band of Faith Seidenberg(an attorney and vice-president of NOW-Legal).Mascullne/Feminlne, ed. by Betty and Theodore Roszak, Harper Colophon Books. 62.^-5

An anthology of readings in sexual mythology and the liberation of women. Of special interest is Robin Morgan’s beautifully written,"Good­bye To All That."

"Men Raise Cry, Too," Jim Hyatt, The Wall Street Journal, January 22,1971."Men’s lib" wants the same wages, jobs, draft exemptions, and hair

length that women already enjoy. The next time you fly Pan American you can pinch a steward.

"Must Marriage Cheat Today’s Young Women?" Philip E. Slater, Redbook, February,1971. .

A sociologist’s belief that young women can transcend their present position only by affirming their own worth. But that such an affirmation will depend on the development of feminine solidarity.

"The Geography of Inequality," McCall’s, February,1971.A survey of how the law affects women in fifty states: in their mar­

riage, in their work, and in their lives. The report leaves no doubt a- bout the need for reform.

"Woman and Man," Carol Tavris, Psychology Today, February,1971.A questionnaire to test your (or someone else’s)sexlsm.

Anyone who would like to write an article or es­say for The BROADSIDE on an issue involving wo­men’s rights should contact Laura Douglas at 529-6^00 or Helen Cassidy at 7^8-53690 Letters to the editor and your suggestions and comments are invitedo

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