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BY CHERE COPE
"Job discrimination is now pro
hibited and much of it has come
about from the constant pressure
from women's groups. We must
break the back of discrimination
and for the first time in the history
of the world we have the tools to
do it with," Mary Heriot, of the com
mission on planning and aging, said
in a speach to the Women's Equal
Action League (WEAL) caucus held
last Saturday.
Her statement during an informal
panel discussion at the Townhouse
Motor Inn, perhaps best sums up the
theme of the caucus women's
rights. The workshop was held to
educate women of their rights per
taining to employment, maternity
leave, and day care centers.
Continuing on job discrimination,
Ms. Heriot said that women are
grossly misrepresented in the pro
fessional field and likewise under
paid.
"The situation is getting worse.
Thirty years ago 30 per cent of the
college teachers were women as
compared to 19 per cent today. Fif
teen years ago a woman earned 64
per cent of her male counterpart,
today 59 per cent."
Laws prohibiting discrimination
on any grounds been passed since
1963, but the problem is, according
to Don Wedlock associate professor
at the USC law school, in his talk
on maternity leave policies, that
often the courts don't interpret the
cases in a manner favorable to
women. "When a woman feels she
is being discriminated against by
her employer, she can sue for her
equal rights. The courts can inter
pret the discrimination laws
broadly of narrowly--that is, make
it easy or hard for the woman to
claim her rights. We are hoping that
if the proposed equal rights
ammendment (currently in Cong
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BY PATTY MCQUILLAN
Kappa Phi Kappa, the profes
sional education fraternity 0
and Kappa Delta Epsilon, its sister C
sorority held their national biennial a
convention in Nashville, Tenn., this I
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president for sessions. Dr. Keith, a
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national counsel member for the
1973-74 biennial. At the meetings
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ably to women.
Wedlock thinks women are dis
criminated against by maternity
leave policies. "Most employers
require their female employees to
leave after five or seven months
of pregnancy, and there is no
guarantee their job will be waiting
for them when they return."
There are remedies, Wedlock
assures. The Equal Employment
Opportunities Commission
(EDDOC) prohibits employers from
treating pregnancy different from
any other disability. "A woman who
is denied maternity leave without
assurance of her job on return can
sue for her rights," Wedlock says.
"This is not always effective,
because of the enormous backlog of
cases in the courts. The simplest
and most effective way to establish
protection for women is the passage
of the equal rights ammendment.
This, if passed, will clearly estab
lish in the constitution that there
can be no grounds for discrimina
tion on the basis of sex."
Betty Mandell, USC social prob
lems research institute associate,
spoke to the workshop on discrimi
nation of women in education, par
ticularly at the higher level. "When
WEAL charged sex discrimination
practices at Columbia University in
New York in 1971, one out of 75
administrators were female, yet 96
percent of the secretarial staff were
women. While C. U. awarded 26 per
cent of their doctorates to women,
only 2 per cent of their tenured pro
fessors were women."
"To correct the problem," Ms.
Mandell continued, "A set percen
tage of women and minorities must
be hired by a certain time, and an
employment officer talks with the
department heads if the quotas are
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Louisiana State University. Runner
up was Beta Pi at Southern Univer
sity at Baton Rouge, La.
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included attending Angela Davis'
first lecture on a college campus
since she was fired at the Univer
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