Network, August 1978

The Network magazine (1978-1989) published through the Phoenix Center was a women's magazine created by Mary Gaber, Jinnah Kelson, and Lynne Van Dam who saw the need for an intelligent magazine that would address women's issues and appeal to women in Utah, whether they were in the business world or not.

Vol. l No. 5 60CENTS :a.J'.jxM!"~ :;xud : Jenmr no-. soo& . J'alt df!I, tdah,: ..................... aa{ke,r,r corred1°M1 retp1-e.rte£I THE MONTHLY FOR UTAH'S 200,000 WORKING WOMEN AUGUST 1978 Nu~se, Heal Thyself by Margo Keller Utab nurses are standing on the verge of sweeping change - events that could affect their salary levels, working conditions and the image of nurses as professionals. The root cause of this change: a growing Utah economy. he population is growing, more hospitals are being built, more people need health care. Beyond simple growth and an increase in demand, however, is the other side of the coin: a serious shortage of nurses throughout the state. Recently lntermountain Health Care, Inc., the non-profit corporation which took over the Mormon Church Hospital system, conducted a survey showing Utah nurses were significantly underpaid compared to surrounding Intermountain states. Seeking to recruit new nurses for hospitals the corporation plans to build, and reduce the turnover rate (now 50 percent) among nurses in existing hospitals: the corporation recommended its member hospitals grant a 15 percent salary hike to nurses in July. The decision affects workers in LDS, Cottonwood and Primary Children's Hospitals in Salt Lake City. At the same time lntermountain recommended raises, most other Salt Lake hospitals began granting similar increases - between 10 and 15 percent~ to nurses. Carol Bush, assistant administrator at LDS Hospital, outlines the gravity of the current nursing shortage. With normal attrition and growth, she says, LDS Hospital alone could use at least 50-75 more Registered Nurses (RNs) by this October. But only about 65 RNs will be graduating from the area's nursing schools before then. Angelyn Nelson, medical reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, explains further: turnover and other factors will produce 500 new nursing positions opening in the Salt Lake area alone during the next year, she estimates. In addition, plans for new hospitals, to be built during the next few years, will further squeeze the available supply of nurses. Like diamonds waiting to be mined, Utah nurses are benefitting from the demand a growing economy has created for their services. But a few nurses, not satisfied with a passive, "Let's wait to see what management does for us'' attitude, have taken important steps toward defining nurses' needs, learning to influence the direction of change. As Carolyn Hatfield, Tin Recovery and Gary Moretti, RN in Emergency Surgery, at Primary Childrens Hospital, disclose, salary level is only one of many working conditions they think need to be changed. They outline the following reasons for job dissatisfaction: •Lack of communication with the hospital administration. Little impact on the decision-making processes that directly affect nurses. • A poor public image of the nurse and her/his role in health care. •Physicians' low image of the nurse's role in health care (They think we are their handmaidens,'' laughs Hatfield). •Understaffing, resulting in the feeling nurses are jeapordizing patients' lives. Jan Jones, RN at St. Mark's Hospital, adds local shift scheduling to the list. "It is archaic compared to national proce- With the advent of increasing demand for their services, however, nurses are faced with both the responsibility and the opportunity to influence changes in their profession. <lures," and Vicki Jensen, RN adds, "Some weeks I'll work every single shift there is ... other times I work eight days straight or maybe a couple of double shifts. You get exhausted, and then you 're dangerous.'' "I think after 10-12 hours of working, you 're not safe," concludes Jones. • All the nurses interviewed by network agree monitoring of nursing standards is insufficient. "Because we 're short staffed, we often work with worse than mediocre nurses," one nurse states. A picture of frustration outlined by nurses Gary Moretti and Carolyn Hatfield includes: Carolyn Hatfield: "Nursing is now a dynamic profession. We've just got to organize and meet our growing needs before the qualified people leave the profession." •Lack of communication: "Take a week where you know there ~ill be a shortage of nurses. You tell your head nurse or doctor, but nothing is changed. Even elective surgery stays on the roster. As one of the nu"rses who is working, you must work shifts without any breaks, and sometimes work double shifts." •Stress: ''It's incredibly stressful to care for five or more patients who all are in a dynamic, fluctuating health care situation, and be unable to take even one break from the patients and their constant requirements.'' •Low pay: all nurses interviewed agree the final blow is receiving the low paycheck at the end of the week. Not only are the salaries below par (Hatfield makes $5.94/hr, Moretti makes $5.92), but also little opportunity is provided for upward mobility. ''You could be a staff nurse for ten years, and I doubt you would realize a $3,000 increase in all that time," says Moretti. Poor working conditions and low salaries have been part of the Utah nursing profession for years. With the advent of increasing demand for their services, howevei:, nurses are faced with both the responsibility and the opportunity to influence forthcoming changes in their profession. "Nurses will have to fight every step of the way, as they change their role with the doctor,'' says LDS adminstrator Bush. "For example, the doctors at LDS Hospital were upset when nurses began writing clinical •comments on patients' progress charts! ''Nurses also must be willing to assume the greater job responsibilities," she adds, "and many still are not." Bush says nurses are already represented in the decision-making process within the hospital structure, citing the Grievance, Nursing and Administrative committees as examples of places RNs are included. She has strong negative feelings about nurses unionizing or even organizing among themselves. "It means management has failed,'' she says. Despite signs of potential censure from administration officials, however, a few nurses have begun to meet in groups, forming the nuclei of small support systems and the beginning of a communication network among themselves. They realize the image of the nurse as ''helper,'' giving baths and changing bedpans, is on the way out - in fact, if not in myth. Nurses are beginning to accept increased responsibilities, viewing themselves as professionals- requiring higher salaries and continued on p.12 increased respect. network AUGUST1978 PAGE2 ----n~twork editorial Let's Shrink This Gap, ·Starting Now! ---network features:--August Down the River .PAGE3 Marj .Bradley discovers guilt - then rejuvenation - when she takes a • leisurely river trip. While network celebrates 7 3 percent of the education the work opportunities opening majors were women; in English Becoming a Carpenter to women every day, and we qr journalism 59 percent were applaud the women taking female; in health or medical PAGE 6 advantage of opportunities, professions women dominated Jan Gift found herself wondering if she really wanted to spend the rest of we must publicly deplore the by 64 percent. her life at Makoff. She decided she . These are the rational exp- would rather be a carpenter. continuing practice of employers to consistently pay 1an ati ons. But, even consi-• women less than men for doing dered inthecool lightofobjectivity, these .explanations alone Self Respect + the same jobs. The latest figures from the defy the huge gap of 60 per- Communication = Assertion PAGE6 U.S. Census Bureau show the cent between men's and PAGE 8 gap between men's and women's income. For instance, even highly A former University of Utah Ph.D. canwomen's income has not decreased. While women have •educated women with profes- didate explores the mysteries of "asbeen increasing their numbers siona I and technical skills, in sertiveness training." in the labor force, the median fields like engineering, law or income for women who work science~ earn only 65 percent full time reached only $8,312 in as much as comparably qual1976, up from $6,488 in 1974. In ified men. In fact, women with Investing in Certificates the same period, men in- the same educational status as creased their median from men have far lower earnings at PAGE 10 $11,468 to $13,859, leaving every level. And a woman with Shopping for the best gift at your wo~en trailing by the same ' four years of college now earns local Savings and Loan? Elaine Weiss offers a few tips about the new - and ratio - earning 60 percent of about as much as a man with the old - savings plans. what men earn - we've been eight years of elementary faced with for nearly 20 years. school. What can we do to close Anne Marie Boyden Sure, some of the reason for this appallingly high gap in the gap can be accounted for PAGE 11 PAGE 11 rationally. Most of the job ex- earning potential? 1) Learn to talk salary. Ask Anne Marie Boyden finds_herself at pansion in recent years has helm of a rapidly growing firm. been in clerical and service people what they make, both the Network asked her how she got jobs - jobs that have ab- co-workers and people who there. Her answer: invest in people. sorbed many of the women en- hold similar jobs in competitive tering the labor force for the first institutions. 2) When asking for a raise or Before It Passes time, or re-entering aftervariapplying for a new job, always PAGE 12 ous periods of unpaid labor. Furthermore, women tend assume you could be paid to have interrupted work pat- about double of what you A budding Utah fiction writer, Elaine terns. For reasons related to think is the going rate, or what Stone, details a day in the life of a single working mother. marriage, childbirth , divorce is being offered to you. 3) Study wage and salary and low level job status, their PAGE 12 relationship with the workforce surveys, published by the U.S. has been less than steady. This Dept. of Labor and available history has meant lost oppor- to the public. 4) Like the nurses featured in tunities for training : promotion, obta ining seniority status - in this month's issue, learn to join short, lost oppo rtun iti es for wi th your co-workers, to unite higher earnings and career behind salary issues. Without advocating revolution, we are Publisher a dvancement. Phoenix Center Mary Gaber Too, women going to col- saying: learn the ropes - be- Editor Circulation Debbie Ostler lege still are not using their come familiar with collective Advertising Aggie Speer Jimmie Barrow education to prepare for jobs bargaining, like men have Linda ltami in high-paying fields. For ex- been for decades. Contributing Writers 5) Become politically ac- Marj Bradley, Beverley Burge, Diana Potts, Nancy Network is published monthly. Send all corresample, the percentage of Roberts, Margo Keller, Eileen Stone, Kate McMahon pondence to 989 East 900 South, Salt Lake City, women majoring in engineer- tive. Economic equality is one Utah 84102. [phone]. Copyright 1978 by ing rose from only two percent and the same as political and network. Reproduction without permission is Contributing Editors prohibited. Title network is registered.in 1966 to seven percent in social equality. We can't have Nancy Etheridge, Brenda Hancock, Carol Shelton, Subscription $7.00/year. 1974. At the same time, in 1974, one without the other. Elaine Weiss network™ network AUGUST 1978 PAGE3 Down the River by Marj Bradley I can recall reading articles about husbands and wives taking " separate vacations." I would laugh and comment, half joking, about how nice it would be to get away from home for awhile. Yet, when the opportunity arose for me to do just that get away by myself - I found a '' separate vacation'' was in direct conflict with my image of myself: the happily married young mother. Jim and I had been married for five years and, although the topic of' 'separate vacations'' had come up in our conversations often, I had never seriously considered the probability of such an arrangement for myself. Jim usually took a few days off each year to go fishing with friends, and I would invariably get depressed just before he left, as though his leaving meant some sort of rejection. Why didn't he want me along? I'd like to get away, too! In the winter of 1974, a couple of my friends told me about a trip they were p~anning the following summer: a river trip. They were trying to get a group together for this exciting, five-day excursion down the Colorado River, through Cataract Canyon. I was intrigued. When I told Jim about the plans, I was surprised he didn't seem as excited as I was. He encouraged me to go without him, assuring me he and our two-and-a-half year old son, Bill, would be fine without me for a week. I had no intention of going alone, however. I postponed by decision, hoping openly - Jim would change his mind. I just did ~ot want to cope with the guilt and selfishness I felt every time I thought about going on that trip without Jim. After all , my mother had never even considered a separate vacation for herself. She had de-· voted all her time to her family. Finally, Jim helped me make the decision I was unable to make myself. He came home one evening and announced, "You 're going on the river trip! I just paid for it.'' I didn't realize then my husband could know, more than I, how much the trip would mean to me. My relatives were sure we were having within myself. I found I felt awkward fragmented. I was inclined to think the demarital problems. Why else would I do without a man to lean on or help carry my cisions in my life were circumscribed by something so strange? In our society, and ''excess baggage.'' Finally, we reached other people__,. my child, my husband, my especially in our community, it has always our destination - the river. Too late to part-time teaching job. I realized suddenly been considered perfectly normal for a back out now! So I tried to put aside my why the decision to take this vacation had man to leave his wife and children to go fear of the rapids as I clumsily climbed been so difficult for me to make. It would hunting or fishing with his friends. No one onto the rubber raft. have forced me to make a choice of my assumes the marriage is in trouble when Wondering what I was doing on that own - not something I should do, or the man is gone alone. My rebellious feelriver, in that flimsy-looking raft, I had needed to do, but something I wanted to ings should have been enough inspiration failed to realize what was happening to do. During this trip I realized I could make for me to know I had made a good decision me. We had been on the river for three my own decisions, apart from my respon- but that, too, was easier to talk about days when it occurred to me that, as a wife sibilities at home. I realized I had not rethan act upon. and mother, I was in a unique situation. I linquished my ability to make choices by While I was packing my clothes I tried had spent seventy-two hours on myself! becoming a mother. to deal with my feelings. ''I really No one else needed my undivided attenWhen the vacation was over, I felt reshouldn't leave my family for my own • tion. I found it felt invigorating - al- juvenated - as though I had been reborn pleasure! What if I drown? What if some- though .strange - to concentrate on read- -this time as a person with more to offer thing happens afhome and no one can ing a book, writing a poem, or even to my family and friends because I was more reach me?" As I look back, I see now I think about absolutely nothing! ecure , more sure of myself as an indiwas experiencing what my mother used to Suddenly, it seemed, I became aware I vidual. call ' 'growing pains. ' ' was not "somebody's wife," or mother or Later that summer, we took a weekend During most of the first day, I was teacher. I had no specific duty to carry out family vacation in the mountains, Jim took quiet and contemplative, feeling uneasy on that river. I needed only to be myself. his "separate vacation" in Montana, and without a small child around. Yet, I had become so involved with the var- for the first time in our married life ; I perhaps, I was carrying around a child ious roles of my life I had begun to feel didn't resent his leaving. Bring your eyes to us. At Standard Optical we're the ones to see for all.your eyewear needs. If you're a first time glasses wearer, come to us for the finest in professional eye examinations. If someone else has examined your eyes, bring your prescription to us for the largest selection of fashion frames. • If you're treating yourself to a new pair of glasses, see us for the highest quality lenses, made right here in our new factory. We also have the best selection of fashion sunglasses. You'll See the difference Our business is getting yours off the ground. Today, many women want to go into busfness for themselves. 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All that's required is "SPIRIT", and to enjoy working with other friendly people serving the public. We offer you a competitive wage, regular merit increases, free uniforms, and the best training anywhere. Your experience with McDonald's will be an excellent reference for your future career. "YOU, YOU'RE THE ONE!® 11 MAKE CONTACT at the McDonald's nearest you to apply. Bring a friend too, we can arrange for you to work on the Buddy System. Now Interviewing for Fall Employment We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F Sisterhood is powerful on the job. Unfortunately the concept does not operate automatically. Witness some examples: - A young man recently mused to me it was strange no women had joined his firm during the latest round of hiring: ''There was a woman on the hiring committee but, you know, I think she likes being the only woman at the top,'' he said. - A secretary was recently promoted to an administrative position. Instead of rejoicing at the possibility that they might also aspire to higher positions, the other secretaries banded together to protest her too-sudden rise in the ranks. - When it came time for a woman to be promoted to supervisor of her section, the women in her section went to the department head to berate her; the woman's promotion was denied because, according to management, "Women don't like to work for a woman supervisor. '' - A young woman joining a legal firm as an attorney found herself stymied by secretaries who refused to type her work until after the male attorney's work was done. Incidents like these illustrate all too well that we are sometimes our own worst enemies. Every woman who "makes it" should inspire us with our own possibilities. Anything we can do to help make her look good can eventually help us. If she fails it will be a long time before management considers promoting another woman. If a man fails in his job we do not hear comments about men being ''unable to handle the job," but a woman's failure becomes a failure for her sex, for all of us. My educational and professional life has been blessed with women who joined together to support each other. I attended three graduate schools. In each school, even in pre-feminist days, the women students were dismayed by the competitiveness of the system and began to share information and prepare together for exams and papers. We wound up getting higher grades. We welcomed men into our ranks when they saw cooperation could lead to successful achievement. Working on a large staff, another woman and I were troubled because our suggestions were ignored by the men in staff meetings. We decided to brief each other about our ideas ahead of the meetings and to support each other verbally during the meetings. Suddenly the men were listening and recognizing our programs. Secretaries working for me have unfailingly realized the burden of my work and tried to lighten it for me. I cite these personal examples to show why I am so puzzled by the lack of support by women for women. My own experience has shown me how much easier the job gets done if we are working together. Both women and men who make it to the top have had ''mentors'' - role mod- els who have almost indirectly shown them the ropes. Mentors can include their protegees in informal work meetings, involve them in special projects, introduce them to the right people, casually discuss strategies and clients, and generally let them in on the secrets of the profession. Since most people at the top are men, most mentors are men. Perhaps to avoid gossip, or because they relate to each other better, male mentors tend to have male protegees. Top women professionals, however, have usually had such male mentors. Are these women now extending themselves to younger women to show them the way? An encouraging note, recently reported in Ms. magazine, is that President Carter's top four women appointees are searching for and appointing _other women. Their departments show a real change in the number of high level women appointments. Perhaps the day of the ''Queen Bee'' - the woman who wants to be alone among all those men - are gone forever. And while we are talking about sisterhood, what about our sisterhood with the women who have fought for the rights we now have. I am appalled by the newspaper stories in which the first woman crane operator or vice president or whatever feels compelled to say she is not a "braburner" or "women's libber," but that she got the job because she was the best qualified. Not only are those terms demeaning, but she is simply wrong. A few years ago her qualifications would not have mattered in the least. Many women, at great financial and emotional sacrifice to themselves, have fought for her right to be considered on her merits. One of my friends was hired as an auto mechanic by a utility company. She sent me the newspaper clipping, in which her first quoted words were, "Without the feminist movement I would never have had a chance to use my skills in this job.'' Now that's sisterhood. The women I know who have survived discrimfnation suits - a long and painful process - have invariably told me they wanted to give up many times. The only thing that kept them going was the desire to save other women from the injustice they had faced. That, too, is sisterhood. If we can begin to see other women as allies rather than enemies, together we can make progress. If we can substitute cooperation for competitiveness we may be amazed at the achievements we can make. I am not suggesting banding together against our male colleagues or replacing all-male departments with all-female departments. I am suggesting the kind of team work and cooperation little boys learn on their Little League team. I a·m suggesting the Golden Rule some of us learned in Sunday School has particular relevance: whether we like it or not, we will be judged by the success or failure of other women, so it is to our advantage to give them the kind of support we would like to receive. PAGES network AUGUST 1978 Eloise McQuown A Struggle for Well~Being Working it Out. Sara Ruddick and Pamela Daniels, eds. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. $11.95 (hardback) $4.95 (paper). Working It Out is a collection of autobiographical sketches written at mid-life by 23 professional women- artists, writers, scholars, teachers and scientists about the meaning of work in their lives. In a very "personal" way (almost all of the sketches are told in the first person) these women reveal what it was like to grow up in the 1940's and 1950's; to go to college before affirmative action and the women's movement; to be the best and the brightest at Harvard graduate school and still not be taken seriously; to be armed with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and still not be able to find a job. The essays are not angry. They are instead very poignant revelations of women trying to succeed in a society where the rules are defined only in male terms. Evelyn Fox Keller, in her essay ''The Anonomaly of a Woman in Physics,'' graphically illustrates the dilemma women of her generation faced. Fortified with an undergraduate degree from Brandeis and much idealism, Keller entered Harvard graduate school with every expectation of being a theoretic.al physicist. "Everything that excited me lay ahead,~' she writes. ''I had fantasies of graduate school and beReview copy compliments of King's English. coming a physicist .... " What she actually found was "two years of almost unmitigated provocation, insult and denial.'' Her experience is representative of many others in the book. While the authors have different professions and backgrounds, the anthology points to recurrent similarities. Almost all grew up in homes where parents wanted something more for their children than they themselves, had. Most were educated in well-known colleges and universities and hold multiple degrees. Many married and had children, then endeavored to juggle the dual role of wife/mother and career woman. At the time of writing, many were divorced. One of the most significant revelations of the book is how late in life these women learned the importance of defining life in their own terms, not the terms of family, peers, colleagues, and society. 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Handling heavy tools, I learned about leverage. Most jobs don't take strength, just skill. And I found myself enjoying framing, lifting, and shoving and using brute strength. ''I became very aware of my body, and of the fact it was a distraction to the men around me. But I also learned to ignore the men, and use my body properly, to help me use the tools I needed to use, without worrying how it might be affecting someone else. "The only thing I couldn't handle," she says smiling, "was swinging a 30-lb. sledge hammer. I just couldn't do it, no matter how hard I tried. I didn't feel bad about it. I just told the instructor 'it hurts to do this,' and put it down.'' Jan was one of two women to graduate from Utah Tech in carpentry in 1976-the first women to accomplish the feat. From there, a friend of a friend found her a job at It's not unusual for Jan Gift to wield a heavy hammer or design and build a lovely table. She's been building, fixing -and designing household items since she was a little girl. What may be unusual is that Jan has taken her skills seriously, improved them through schooling, and made good money using them. And now she is teaching other young women to do the same thing. Three years ago Jan was a veteran saleswoman at Makoff, having sold clothes and cosmetics to customers there for over three years. "I enjoyed selling clothes," she says, "but it was depressing to me. I would become enraged at how much people spend on vanity - they can spend so much money, and still not feel any better. " As she turned 32 years old, she found As she turned 32 years oJd, she herself searching her soul, asking herself if she really wanted to spend the rest of her found herself searching her life at Makoff. She had tried college, and soul, asking herself if she really didn't like it. She knew she needed a job wanted to spend the rest of her with variety, working with people, mov- life at Makoff. ing (not sitting still!) and being creative. Her tendency was to think more and more Smith Construction Co. where she started about becomin_g a professional carpenter. at $3.50/hr. and was told she would move ''My husband has a Ph.D., and all his to $5 .00/hr. after one month. friends are in academics. He personally ''Four months later I was still making would not want to be a carpenter, and he $3.50. But I was learning a lot, working couldn't imagine taking a job like that hard, and I knew I had a good job. I was himself. And he felt protective toward me the only laborer earning so little, but for -he didn't want his wife-to 'get hurt.' me it was a choice between leaving and "But he was open to what I needed, learning. I chose to learn," she says. and he and my children encouraged me to After she was laid off in October, she do what I wanted to do. After checking went to a solar energy conference in Colwith the union and construction firms, I orado, where she met people from the Salt soon realized I had two counts against me: Lake County Community Action Progmy age and my sex. So I enrolled in ram, and was asked to start a weatherizaschool, Uta)l Technical College at Salt tion program for women through that Lake.'' agency. She took the job, teaching women Once in school she learned quickly to to build solar greenhouses, water heaters help herself. Her instructors, she says, and collectors. often "lectured me on my duties as a Jan is now crew supervisor for the woman,'' and would not look at her in the Youth Project at Phoenix Institute where face. But she learned everything she she is teaching teenagers ( 16-19) basic needed to know about her craft, from fram- carpentry skills, weatherization and reing to finished carpentry, math, physics, pair. ''I enjoy working with the kids,'' she blueprint reading, roofing, pouring con- says, "and this way I can do that and use crete and installation of drywall. my carpentry skills, too." During significant seasons - Christmas, the Fourth of July, Valentine's Day and such - magazine publishers and their life-giving force, the advertisers, enjoy entertaining their readers with seasonally oriented articles. This month's "Working It Out" column initiates network into the seasonal issue ranks. No. I am not going to discuss the heat, planting a garden or sewing plaid backto-school jumpers. Summer means all those things to many people but for me summer has for the last several years represented making yet another move. My immediate family is not of gypsy blood nor are we escaping creditors or the law. We are, like millions of other American families, transient chiefly as a result of my husband's profession. And though I am liberated enough (I think) to reject blind adherence to a ''Whither thou goest" philosophy, I am hoping this move is the last. I have decided I am tired of a rootless life: one which demands constant exertion of effort to meet and keep new friends when the old ones suited me fine; which forces me out of my beloved routines the familiar grocery store where the checkers know my children and me well enough to cash my checks and to kid me mercilessly when Notre Dame whips my Texas; the bank for which I shall ever retain a warm spot in my heart for granting me, all by myself, my first loan; my favorite fast food establishments, department stores and all the other institutions which contribute to the daily make-up of a life's routine. All these must be relearned; there will be new jokes with different clerks and my life though it will of course go on, will have been reshuffled and unsettled. More important than the various establishments where I do business, naturally, are my friends at work and in my neighborhood. The pals I can count on for hilarity or comfort will be sorely missed. According to statistics, many of the women whose lives are set into chaos at the whim of the husband's employer will experience similar feelings but some of them will not have the mental gear or emotional make-up necessary for the transient life. Many companies appear to. treat a married male manager as though he were a bachelor with no regard for the havoc wreaked upon his dependents. The emotional damage done to many women and their families as a result of transience has not been thoroughly studied. In his book, Future Shock, Alvin Toffler describes the sense of disjointedness and rootlessness that is the end product of a constantly shifting society. Alcoholism and nervous breakdowns are common in American families today. How much of this can be attributed to an uneasy feeling that the center cannot hold is probably incalculable. Moving will indeed be a difficult transition in my life but I have deciged that when I have my nervous breakdown it will be for a cause far more monumental and worth the energy. Partly as a result of something a psychiatrist friend once said to me and partly due to my refusal to believe my ·children's psyches are as fragile as some of the trendier therapists would have us think, I am not overly concerned about the children's reaction to their new home. Certainly we are making the obvious efforts to indoctrinate them to the move, but if past experience is any clue, they will bring several strange - to me anyway - children home for lunch before I have the dishes unpacked. Perhaps I could be accused of taking my children's traumas too lightly. I am, after all, the kind of mother who, if her children's physical complaints are located from the neck up, says, "Go to bed" and if from the neck down says ''Go sit on the toilet.'' I treat my plants, cat and dogs with the same benign and loving neglect and all apparently have not yet suffered. Thus having defended myself I can go back to what my psychiatrist friend told me regarding my moving concerns. "If the basic family life and structure remain the same in the new place,'' he said, ''I don't worry much about normal kids' adjustment. I worry about the mothers. They are the ones rushing around seeing that everyone else makes the move smoothly and forget their own needs in the process.'' Whether or not Mom, like Dad, has a job outside the home, she is still traditionally the one left to deal with the nitty things like transfers of medical records, getting the dogs vaccinated, changing the address on magazine subscriptions and on and on. She is also the.one usually most concerned with ''fitting into'' the new community. Some companies are becoming more enlightened and have begun offering more assistance to relocated employees and their families. These companies are perhaps aware of the growing tendency of employees to refuse a move even if it means promotion because they don't want their families uprooted or because their spouses also have significant jobs and can't or won't move. Even when the employed wife agrees with and even applauds the move, she must leave more than a familiar home. She leaves a familiar job environment and must search for a new one. Ideally, both partners will find the work they desire in the new community and everybody will benefit. But with the probable exceptions of Debby Boone and Marie Osmond, few contemporary women are still naive ~nough to expect life to be an idyllyc dream. For many of us who move -~his summer, the dust we stir up may not resettle quite the way we'd planned. 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Vivian re- was b~ginning to take place mained cool and unperturbed when she in me. It was spurred by the found herself stuck in New York without a discovery my state had at last job or worse, a work permit. She promptly been identified. It not only phoned the manufacturing tycoon Paul Wall ace's office and asked to speak to had a name, but was shared him. After failing to get him for the third by many others. And it was time, I heard her address the millionaire's not incurable. secretary, her haughty voice as hard and as_ cold as steel: ''My name is Vivian Kaplan. I left Mr. Wallace a message earlier, ask- me, buster, does so with my permission. • ing him to call me. Could you tell me why No exceptions.'' I'm sure you know people like that. he hasn't returned my call?" I'll never . know exactly how she did it, but she was Confident, daring, respected by all. Yet here I was, lost in admiration, never getput through to him right away. A week later she met me, black eyes ting a raise (too busy being everybody's glowing. "I got the job! He's hired me!" yes-girl, I suppose), never making myself Vivian got a job that hadn't even existed heard. Trying to imitate my friends' behavior didn't seem to work. Sure, I could before she called! Gab;iella and I started working to- approach fellow workers as Gabriella did, gether as news translators in a large daily but it didn't stop anyone from treating me newspaper. Within one year Gabriella be- like the·office pet. I would sooner have came the associate editor of the literary died than invite a man for dinner, to a party section of the paper, tripling her salary. of just for a chat. When I drove, I got Her confidence in her ability was over- pushed out of my lane by other drivers. powering and she saw to it that no one Shoppers would push ahead of me in overlooked it. From the very start, anyone supermarket checkout lines. The whole who tried to pinch her behind, pat her back world was out to get me. I went as far as to or behave condescendingly towards her in suspect my television set of being anany way, would be thrown back with the tisemitic and the computer of the Univerchilling remark: '' Anyone who touches sity of Utah of being sexist. I felt you either had "it" - a myste_riou·s quality that made you mistress or master of your fate - or you didn't. If you had it, you went around ordering what you wanted and the world scampered to obey. If you didn't, you spent your life getting pushed around. I obviously belonged to the latter category, a state which seemed to me incurable. When I started studying for my Ph.D. at the University of Utah, I was desperate for money. After exhausting several possiblities and almost giving up, I went to the local high school and offered my services as a Hebrew teacher. It was my last hope. I was eminently .qualified and had had ample experience in teaching. It was the one field in which I had always excelled. I went to the job interview as humbly as a beggar asking for alms. I sat on the edge of my seat, clasping my hands on my lap. • ''I would be so grateful if you could give me this job," I told the 22-year-old administrator. I was 27. "I'm afraid, Miss Yudelman, that we have no suitable opening for you at the moment. But I promise to call you should we require your services in the future.'' A week later he hired an acquaintance of mine for the job, a person less qualified and totally inexperienced in teaching. My first reaction was to go home and cry. It was just another incident in a chain of events, but I was at the end of my meek tether. After crying for three days I started getting angry. I ·got madder and madder. Something was wrong, and it was becoming clear the problem was not with the world but with me. But how does one go about curing an unidentifiable disease? I registered for an assertiven~sstraining workshop at the university counseling center. I slipped in as unobtrusively as possible and sat down on the first empty seat I saw. On my left a man was staring straight ahead, at nothing. I stole a furtive glance to my right. A man and woman were talking quietly to each other, shutting the rest of the world out. Across the room two "I would be so grateful if you could give me this job/' I told the -22-year-old administrator. I was 27. women were joking loudly, trying to camouflage their self-consciousness. I wrung my hands, then bit my nails. What am I doing here? There is still time to get away, a silent voice inside me urged . Sneak out. No one will ever know. Put Your Finger on Success at UTAH TECH ,<- \\ ··\ \ _,~\1, • '·\ ···,> f / . ) /. /1 i.1 • i No matter whether you are out of the labor market struggling to get in, or in it and anxious to move up, Utah Te9hnical College at Salt Lake has classes that can help - you . . . day or even .mg.I You may be single, married, divorced, widowed, minority or silent majority, abused or even pampered. Whatever your situation we are interested in you . ;_r jl .i __) • One of the great purposes of Utah Technical College is to train students in employable skills. Perhaps we can help you: visit with Alice Smith or another of our counselors - now! UTAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE AT SALT LAKE 4600 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84107 [phone] network AUGUST 1978 Too late. Two youngish people introduced themselved as Jim Bever and Sue Shoff, leaders of the workshop. The three doughnuts I had just polished off - to stabilize my stomach - churned ominously. These young, inexperienced looking people were the leaders? Why, they looked ... I mean, they could have been anybody. How can they help me fight the monsters waiting to get me? Obviously I had made a mistake. But for a cowardly; unassertive person like myself, it was in- When I drove, I got pushed out of my lane .by other drivers. Shoppers would push ahead of me in supermarket checkout lines. The whole world was out to get me. conceivable to walk out now. No, I must sit it out and hate myself. Staying in that room was probably the best thing my unassertiveness ever did for me. "Assertive behavior is the expression of desires and emotions in an effective, responsible manner, without impinging on the rights of others," said Jim Bever, explaining the main goal of the course was to help people express themselves, to be themselves more completely. The course would deal with specific, individual problems as well as with general ones. Although I was nervous and uptight that whole first session, an imperceptible change was beginning to take place in me. It was spurred by the discovery my state had at last been identified. It not only had a name, but was shared by many others. And it was not incurable. "Lack of self assertiveness is such a common problem,'' said Susan Shoff. "So many people are unable to state what they want effectively, to make themselves heard." She said she believes, however, assertive behavior can be learned. The main cause for unassertiveness is low self-esteem, we learned. One approach to this problem is affirming your self value and becoming aware of your rights and of the importance of your needs. As an exercise in recognizing your self worth, take a piece of paper and list twenty great things about yourself. It's hard at first, if you 're one of us unassertiveness freaks, but it gets easier with practice. Then list at least ten rights.-For example, I have a right to be heard; I have a right to be angry; I have a right to define my own relationships. You have no idea how such simple actions affect your feeling, behavior and interaction. Assertiveness training taught me to make and reject requests in a firm, friendly, non-aggressive manner. One of the best ways to do that is through role playin-g, an exercise which helped us to act out anxiety-provoking situations in advance. To my amazement, I found my behavior in imaginary circumstances was not much different from my behavior in ''real lif~". In our role-playing sessions I had as much trouble refusing requests or standing up to criticism as in similar situations at work and among friends. But after some practice with my group I improved greatly. The next time I saw the administrator of the local high school at a social get together, I went up to him and told him my sentiments regarding his hiring a less qualified teacher instead of me. "I don't know what you 're talking about,'' he said. "I am referring to David Frame, whom you hired about a month ago." PAGE9 "As administrator it is my right and duty to decide who is suitable for a certain job and who isn't." '' I am well aware of that and of course you must pick the best person for the job,'' I replied calmly, ''but I wanted you to know that I felt your decision was unfair to me.'' Of course, I didn't get the job nor do I expect any offer from that establishment. But I expressed my feelings about the incident while acknowledging the administrator's right not to hire me. My self respect was thus reinstated. Fear and anxiety often inhibit our interactions. We're afraid of what others might think of us, afraid of not being approved of by society, employer, colleagues and friends. Greatest of all, at least in my case, was the fear of rejection. "It is natural to be scared whenever a lot is at stake. It is normal to be hurt and frustated whenever we are turned down or rejected:'' commented Bever. '' Almost everyone has these feelings and there is no reason to be ashamed of them. '' However, it is possible and often necessary to develop the appropriate social behavior to deal with these situations effectively, he continued. Jim Bever's approach is pragmatic, based on the assumption that behavior modifications, apart from being immediately useful and practical, are inseparable from corresponding changes in personality. In other words, if you behave assertively, you become assertive. I role-played anxiety provoking situations with my friends for weeks after the assertiveness training course was over. i practiced dealing with anything from obscene comments on the street to calling up a potential lover and asking him to come over for the night. Even now, things don't always turn out the way I want them to. But my life has altered significantly. I try to make myself understood and to be as open and direct as I can without being tactless or aggressive. Thus I spare myself the frustrations of holding my feelings inside me and suppressing my emotions. I find that in most cases there is a way to be heard. Most people are, after all, human beings, not monsters. And even the most assertive among us occasionally suffers from feelings of inadequacy and fears of failure , Even now, things don't always turn out the way I want them to. But my life has altered significantly. Fear of rejection used to ·be one of my major phobias. It sent me into paroxyms of anxiety. Well, a rejection is a rejection and I guess some pain is inevitable. But every . time we 're turned down need not necessarily be regarded as a rejection. Last week I called Mike, a dashing man I had had my eye on for some time, and asked him to accompany me to a potluck dinner. He told me quite pleasantly he couldn't make it and we hung up. Though disappointed, I did not feel the end of the world was upofi me. I congratulated myself on calling him _to begin with and was not the slightest bit embarrassed upon meeting him on campus the next day. Three days later, Mike asked me out to a movie and dinner. That experience convinced me more than anything that assertive behavior really works. Good things come to those who act assertively, I told myself. I still can't heip wondering, though, tiow he would have.reacted had he seen the countless rehearsals I put my friends through, making them play his part, while trying to muster the courage to call him that first time! Our Steaks are always done well no matter how we cook them. And that's not all, Prime Rib, Sole, New York Steak, Alaskan King Crab, Dover Sole, Teriyaki Chicken, and for lunch, Mushroom Burger, Italian Burger, -Roost Beef Son~ch and much more. Elks Building 139 East South Temple PHOENIX CENTER WORKSHOPS . 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Mail your registra1ion early and reserve your place. 989 East 900 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 532-6095 network AUGUST 1978 PAGE 10 Finance Elaine Weiss Investing in Certificates Q. Why buy a hane when the rate of interest is higher than nonnal? A. 1) There is.no guarantee interest will go down, thoUJh sorre experts say it will. 2) FHA and VA discount points generally are lower when interest is high. 3) While you wait for interest to go dCMn, the price of hones constantly goes up. 4) If you want more infom1ation on this or other real estate ruatters, let ne help you. MOUNTAIN FUEL Supply Company Positions Available: MONTHLY we have openings for qualified secretaries and clerks. Qualifications: Clerk: type 45 wpm, shorthand 90 wpm Salary: Clerk: $630.00/month Secretary: $886.00/month OCCASIONALLY we have openings for posi- tions requiring graduate degrees and professional experience. These positions include: engineer draftsperson accountant programmer analyst geologist electronics technician Salary range: $886-$2,000/month Send resumes to Mountain Fuel Supply Co. at the address below, attention Dave Geerlings. 180 East 100 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 534-5101 Equal Opportunity Employer M/F If you read a newspaper or watch tele- dered. Remember if you withdraw all or vision you have probably noticed the part of the money before maturity you will media have been inundated with advertis- have to pay a penalty and any funds reing from local savings and loan associa- maining on deposit will revert to the passtions and commercial banks promoting book rate. pots, pans and two new savings c'ertifiOf greater interest to the investor who cates. The gift give-away promotions are can afford it are the new money market usually scheduled in July to induce savers certificates. These require a $10,000 to increase their deposits to compensate minimum investment and have a sixfor withdrawals of funds after the second month maturity. The int~rest rate paid on quarter interest payment. The two savings the money market certificate is tied to the certificates are innovations designed to at- going market rate on six-month U.S. tract new money to depository institutions. Treasury Bills. Commercial banks pay the same rate as Treasury Bills; savings and .If money keeps flowing into loan associations pay ¼ percent above the Treasury Bill rate. Since Treasury Bill infinancial institutions through terest rates change with market conditions, the money market instru- the rate paid on money market certificates ments, we may see a loosen- will vary from week to week. The rates being paid on certificates issued during the ing of credit restraint. week of July 12 to July 18, 1978 were The first of the new certificates is an 7 .765 percent at savings and loan associaeight-year certificate of deposit. Savings tions and 7 .515 percent at commercial and loan associations pay an 8 .00 percent banks. The response of local investors to the annual rate for an 8 .33 percent effective money market certificates has been enannual yield while commercial banks pay thusiastic. And local financial institutions a 7 ¾ percent rate for a 7. 98 percent effective annual yield. The minimum deposit welcome the influx of savings dollars at a time when the prospect of disintermediafor these certificates is $1,000. Are these .certificates prudent invest- tion (depositors withdrawing savings dements? That depends on what interest rates posits from financial institutions to invest do over the next eight years. In times of ris- directly in market instruments) was result, ing interest rates investors prefer shorter ing in a tightening of credit availability. If term investments. While these pay a lower money keeps flowing into financial institurate of return ·they can be rolled over as tions through the money market instruthey mature at 9te higher interest rates that ments, we may see a loosening of credit . will prevail in the future. In the case of restraint. there Howev~r, is a price to pay, and it small denomination certificates of deposit the maximum interest rates that can be will be paid by future borrowers. As long paid are set by federal authorities. It is un- as lenders are paying 7 .5 percent and more likely that maximum allowable rates on for the money they lend, interest rates on short term certificates will exceed eight lpans will remain high. While the new savpercent over the next eight years. If you ings certificates will help keep money have earmarked a certain portion of your flowing through the system, they will also investment portfolio for savings certifi- cause interest rates to .stay at the highest cates and you do not anticipate needing levels seen in three years. these funds for the next eight years, the eight-year certificate should be consi- Elaine Weiss, MBA, has taught finance for 6 years at the University of Utah. Short Path to Promotions by Lori Halverson Many women who feel trapped in their jobs may find the Professional Certificate Program, developed by the University of Utah, a short alternative to lengthy training programs. With a focus on short, intensive classes, taught by local businesspeople, and concentrating on practical, problem-solving business knowledge, this program is aimed at pe6p.le desiring promotions or career changes. About fifty percent of the program participants receive financial subsidies from their employers, like Mountain Bell, Moun_tain Fuel, Eimco, Commercial Security Bank or Galigher Co. According to Kathy McGuire of the Division of Continuing Education, out of the 35 people who have earned Professional Certificates since the program's inception in 1974, 13 have been women. Participants come from as far away as Ogden and Provo. Beginning with basic business skills and progressing to more complex ideas, the courses cover fundamentals of acco~nting, consumer satisfaction, and business communication, organization, management and law. Electives deal with decision-making, human relations, starting a business or managerial skills. A marketing option focuses on advertising strategy and modern selling techniques. Each course lasts six weeks, and meets for two and a half hours one evening per week. Although it is possible to finish the course in one calendar year, the average completion time is a year and a half to two years. Each course costs about $65.00. PAGE 11 network AUGUST 1978 Anne Marie Boyden: · Hard Work and People Underlie Success Ten years ago, if you had told Anne Marie Boyden she would someday be sitting in the dining room of the Fort Douglas Hidden Valley Country Club, revealing the secrets of her award-winning business success, she probably would have laughed in your face. Today, however, Boyden, president of et al, inc. advertising, is maneuvering an 11-person company through the midst of a major transition period which may mean moving £o larger, more comfortable quarters. "We're just growing to fast," she says. '' I have people on every floor of this house and the third floor needs air conditioning.'' About her 555 East South Temple location in Salt Lake City, Boyden says, "I don't think location is a factor in the advertising business, as it is in retailing when you need walk-ins. But the South Temple location hasn't hurt us." Having formed et al ten years ago, along with Shauna Adix (now executive director of the University of Utah's Women's Resource Center), Boyden has worked long, hard hours to take the company to the successful position it holds today. She attributes her achievements to this hard work, the people who worked with ·her from the beginning and "knowing our limitations.'' Boyden can document that for the last ten years the least amount of time she has .spent at et al is 9½ hours per day. She has had no vacations, and few if any days off. A. M. Boyden: Voted-HOutstarading Woman in Business" by the Utah Business Conference. She still believes her major asset is the al still manages today. Boyden says alpeople who joined et al in the beginning, though the company would still be going all of whom are still active in the business even if she hadn't landed that account, it and are stockholders. "Even though probably wouldn't be doing as well. "It Shauna is up at the U, she is still a major made our business respected and gave it a stockholder and has a voice in major deci- credibility it probably wouldn't have had sions of the compc;1ny, '' Boyden says. otherwise," she says. In addition to hard work, good people '' All of my employees hold stock in et al and all work harder than I think most peo- 1and professional help, Boyden attributes a ple do at their'jobs, because of that.'' Although et al has been called an '' all woman advertising agency,'' men like Donald Young and Steven McRea have been part of the operation from the start, along with All my employees hold stock Boyden, Adix and Sandra Peterson (media buyer). Et al experiences a very small in et al, and all work harder turnover rate; new employees are added to than I think most people do at enlarge the staff, rather than replacing their jobs because of that. those who left. "Everyone involved, from Everyone has had a vested me and'Shauna to o~r secretary, has had a vested interest in seeing the company suc- interest in seeing the comceed, and we all worked long hard hours to pany succeed. do that,'' she says. '' Another reason we succeeded where other small businesses fail is that we knew part of her early success to the fact et al our limitations. We know the advertising was a novelty ten years ago, being a part of our business, but we also know ''female business. ' ' enough to know we needed a lawyer and ''I think part of it was reverse disan accountant. We couldn't do it all our- crimination," she says. "I think some of selves. the men in the business told us more than 'Thinking you can do it 'all alone' is they would have told a man and 'We have the biggest mistake people make when to take care of these little girls' was part of they start out in any business," she says. their attitude.'' Soon after the company incorporated, In May Boyden received the "OutBoyden and Adix acquired the Tracy- standing Woman in Business'' award from Collins Bank and Trust account, which et the Utah Business Conference. TEST YOUR FUTURE LITION The world's leading producer of inertial navigation & guidance systems offers career opportunities in a progressive and professional atmosphere. Our Salt Lake City facility offers positions in the following areas: • Solder Assembly • Electronic Test Technician • Accounting • Engineer • Material & Production Control Contact: Laura Davis 328-2241 ext 285 ,. ""1111 .... .... 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If you want a satisfying and excitjng career, send your resume to me today. f' ~ / ~HUGH GREGSON Send resume to Box 22157, AMF, Salt Lake City, UT 84122 M©NY MUTUAL OF NEW VORK _ PAGE 12 network AUGUST 1978 ---------------network fiction--------- Before It Passes written and illustrated by Eileen Stone She's a working woman. Freelancer. does graphics? Great. Great. Next time, Mother. Single parent. A struggling wri- she can have the whole bundle. Racing ter. An editor, graphics designer. At home in the car, she wonders if she's times, a typist. She works at home; her pushy. She feels her body rhythm moving, home, a small apartment; her office, a pulsating, do I talk too much? 9:30, she makeshift drafting board, a table top, two unlatches her drafting board from the bedused lamps, a second hand file cabinet, a room wall . She draws lines, arrows and solid typewriter. The bed covered with densities; 'leroys' percentages and loca- she handle it? He '11 be right over. David more lines to go and a couple of words : on-going work. tions. The pen is fast, efficient; lines pour naps with his walking stick. She vacuums You 're doing real good, helping me, By 8_:15 the second load of wash is in out, arrows fall in place, empty spaces fill the living room floor, sweeps up morning Davie . Want some tuna fish? O.K. Two and the whites are folded. Her son David up and by 11:50 she's done. egg; the bathroom smells of urine and she minutes. 6:30, she stands up to her ankles eats scrambled eggs with toast and juice; Picking up the broken coffee cup that ignores the corners near the tub. She puts in labels, proofreading. Done! Davie! her second cup of coffee tastes bitter and has become her sidekick, for 15 minutes away the clothes, makes herself a sand- Davie! Let's eat! 6:40, she answers the the telephone rings. she writes in h-er journal. Peter says he '11 wich, and pours a fourth cup of coffee. phone, yeah, yeah, it's done with 30 miYes, the job is done. She '11 drop it off. try ... Davie's 'decided to move out. Made 2:00 the phone rings. A meeting at David's nutes to spare. You coming for it? Great. Thirty pages. Ten pages of easily dropped 90 dollars last week; I'm getting behind. school? Wednesday? At 4:00? She did The phone rings again at 7 :05. What? numbers in boxes and twenty excrutiating 12:05, she's driving to the school house have another meeting, but it's o.k., she'll Tomorrow? That's crazy! You never said pages of bullying credibility to back up the and by 12: 15 is pushing David on the switch. No, she won't forget - what kind anything about tomorrow. Listen, she's numbers, as well as another foot in the nearest playground swing. He is learning of cookies? Thanks for calling. Im- your boss, not mine. Can't you send it to door. Yes, another f~ot in the door. She to pump. Pump, David pump! Push, mediately, she makes a call, leaving the her? Whew. O.K. Look, I'll read the·rewonders .when and if she'll ever trip, tak- Mama, push me! He's decided to stay . change of plans with a secretary. Yes, she port over tonight an~ have a summary ing jobs as they come, overlapping due Pushing and pumping; fast, efficient and knows he won't be pleased but it can't be typed up by morning. That's the best I can dates and working late evenings. • tense, she consciously relaxes into the helped. • do. Yeah. O.K. At 8:55, grabbing the papers and easy momentum . 7:20 she hands over the drawing. David, she heads out the door to the car. A root beer; six volkwagens counted, a Guilty working. Guilty not working. David is rubbing his eyes and crying. He Her son in school for three hours - three no-you-can't-have-an-ice-cream-cone, Did her father ever feel this way? S.he wants to build a block building. She shows hours of uninterrupted work . Her client, they are home. 1: 10, the-phone rings. A smiles queerly and it hurts her insides be- him the bonus check and sits beside him on pleased, will have more work for her. She drawing with a bonus if done by 7 :00. Can fore it passes. The door bell sounds at the kitchen floor. Some day, D_avie, I'm 2:30, the rush job arrives. In the kitchen . going to be able to choose my clients. ~e going over the work she pushes her hair tallest building is built; tomorrow's ~eal_1s back. It's big. More than she thought. But ready. She bathes her son, washes his hair, it's O.K. She blue pencils his final readshimastory,giveshimasmallglass changes, gets his phone number. 2:40, her of milk. They hug each other. babysitter cancels. O .K . O.K. In her 9:00 she draws water for her bath and room, looking over the drawing, she ab- quickly cleans her office , putting the resentmindedly answers another call. Yes, port, a notebook and her pen next t<? her the tapes will be ready by the fifth. Back at nightgown on the bed. 9: 15 she is on the her board, she smooths out her clean piece phone. Hi. Oh, I'm sorry. I can't see you of paper and tapes the comers down. ·tonight. I know, I know, I t_hought we Hi , Sweetheart. 3:00, her son is up . He could get together. I was lookmg forward wants an apple. Little bites, that's right. to it. But I've got to work tonight. I'm Little bites . She draws her lines evenly , sorry. How about tomorrow? Uhuh. No, I smoothly , cleanly, silently; murmurs to couldn't put the guy off. Yes, I tried. her son occasionally and goes into her own Come on now, last week was really bad. thoughts. Clients. Jobs. Money. Debit the One editing job and the rest typing. I never rent, food , child care, electricity, gas, make enough money typing and I've got to telephone, doctor, insurance , clothes, make this month's quota, Peter. Yeah,. I David's lessons ... she needs more know I'm tired. But, listen, this week 1s clients. Her lines are smooth. David likes going pretty good. I got an extra twenty for his circle template. She concentrates on •doing a rush job and this morning I spoke work. to a guy and he's going to let me do all his 4:45 and she explains patiently. We draw .. . yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, Peter. went over this last week. The last eight Yeah. Ah. No, I don't think so. I don't like chapters will take longer to edit. Yes, the the way you're talking to me. No, I don't. first seven went faster because there were I'm a damn good mother, a damn good fewer revisions. He talks; she repeats her- worker and the only provider. I can't reself. His voice is loud over the phone; she fuse the job. Yes, yes! I did call up about wants to get back to her drawing. David that, but it doesn't pay enough and it's not has piled all the templates into a box and my line of work. Look, I've got to work. wants to throw them out. Can she call him I'm going to take a bath and then work. back. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry too. How about Easy. David is crying. It is 5:00 and he needs tomorrow? Come over for dinner? O.K.? Drive up to Walker Bank. Your teller may be thirty feet away, some fresh air. We both do, she thinks. 10:00, the phone rings. Soon after, she but you 'II get t ,e same fast, friendly banking you get inside. And Come on, kiddo, let's go out. 5:30, David walks into her sleeping son's room and you never leave the comfort of your car. • is under her board with a pad of paperand a smiles. Well, what do you think, Davie? Plus, we'll give you lollipops for your little leaguers, and even a milkbone for the team mascot. red crayon. On the paper, Davie. He plays Am I too pushy? A fast talker? Too aggresPersonal Touch Banking at Walker Bank. Because a bank should with her toes and-has found some gummed sive? If a woman cancels a date because be more than just a place to put your money. labels. She's into her lines again. The she h.as to work, can she still smell like a phone rings and breaks h_er concentration. rose? Am I trying t~ do more. than I ~an do She smudges a line: David nudges her leg. - or am I a professional, domg my Job? I know, Sweetheart. He's hungry. Ina few 10:30, stepping into the bath water, minutes, Davie. She cleans up the line. At she groans. Tightening her nerves, her 6:00 she puts a defrosted chicken in the glands popping, she slides under the frigid oven but knows he can 't wait. Just a few water for thirty seconds. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation How do you get Personal Touch Banking from a Drive-Up Teller? 0 PAGE 13 Coping HAVE YOU' CONSIDERED THE REAL ESTATE PROFESSION? THE LATEST STUDY SHOWS A NEED FOR 66% MORE AGENTS THIS YEAR THAN LAST. Domestic Affairs Dear Carol, A little over a year and a half ago I went through a divorce and although I resisted leaving my family to go back to work, my financial situation became such that I had no alternative. I love be_ing a homemaker and find myself extremely frustrated at trying to keep up my home, be the breadwinner in the family and still be a good mother to my children. I often find myselffeeling guilty at having to leave my young children while I work. This affects by ability to do a good job as I am constantly concerned about what is going on at home. I do find enjoyment and satisfaction in my job but I would like to know how I could relieve some of the frustration so I could relax more and not be so worried about how to juggle my schedule. WE TEACH MORE PEOPLE WHO PASS THE STATE SALESMAN AND BROKER TEST THAN ANY SCHOOL IN UTAH. WE GUARANTEE YOU WILL PASS THE STATE EXAM AND GET A JOB START ANYTIME - CALL US FOR DETAILS THE CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE STUDIES Salt Lake, Provo, Ogden, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane SaH Lake - 355-2611 Provo -. 375-1500 Ogden - 392-1121 Sincerely, J. G. LlMIBU Dear]. G. If you find yourself in a situation where it is necessary to work, but you still love your family, children and home, you will be miserable if you are working and these things are suffering. You cannot devote yourself to your work if your mind is constantly interrupted with worry and concern over .meeting a demanding schedule. In such a state, no woman can do justice to any of the areas that claim her. If you've got a dirty house and you can't stand it and you can't clean it, how intensely can you apply yourself to your work? There is always something haunting you, and even though you do not drop what must be done in the office to attend to things at home, it is a constant drain on your energy. This kind of mental exhaustion·is one of the vicious enemies of the working mother. You must form a plan to eliminate those tasks that someone else can do for you, so you don't spend precious mental energy coping with these problems. You must carefully and properly s-elect the right kind of daily help. This might be either someone who can "live in" or someone who is dependable on a regular basis. In daily help I'm not talking about a babysitter. A combination governess and housekeeper has been the ultimate solution for me. Look for someone who will not only care for your home, but who will work with your children as well, training them, playing with them, and teaching them. • This type of assistance is not easy to find, but believe me it is available and well worth the money. There are older women who have raised their children and who are lonely, needing the kind of connection with a family that a position with you could provide. There are also women from foreign countries willing to do domestic work in exchange for room and board and a small wage. There are also young ladies who have been trained to be teachers but cannot find a teaching position, who would enjoy working with your children. The task of finding the right person is not an easy one, but it should be given top priority. With this burden relieved, you will have the freedom to be twice as effective in your work. This in turn should enable you to command greater compensation from your employment and making it easier to pay for the cost of the help. If the governess is not also the housekeeper, domestic help will be needed. Someone who can take care of the cleaning, ironing, cooking, needs of the home. Which of these needs you would want to delegate depends on your likes and dislikes, but it is essential that as a working woman you not be under the pressure of being the only help in the home. If you have someone taking care of these domestic needs you'll be able to spend more quality time with your children. If the hours you spend with your children are enjoyable, not dutiful, they will not resent your life outside the home. It'.s the quality of time you spend with your family, not the quantity of time, that makes the difference. As a working woman you need to find someone who can serve as "Vicepresident in charge of domestic affairs.'' Someone as capable of acting in your place as you are. Once you find that kind of help you can turn the world of those concerns off and give yourself entirely to the effort of building a meaningful relationship with your family and making a living for yourself and your children. JOIN BEEHIVE'S UNIQUE CHARTER TOUR TO THE HOL YLAND October 11 . to 25, 1978 - 15 days SEE ISRAEL IN DEPTH. THRILL TO THE SIGHT OF THE HOLY AND HISTORICAL PLACES AS THEY BRING THE BIBLE TO LIFE FOR YOU. $1299 per person double occupancy ASK US FOR DETAILED BROCHURE HURRY! Space Limited ehtve tours & travel 1325 So. Main, Suite B, Salt lake City, Uta.h Carol Shelton, author of' 'How to Succeed in Business without Being a Man'', is president of Professional Investment Consultants in Salt Lake City. Address questions to Carol Shelton c/o network, 989 East 900 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102. Phone[phone] PAGE 14 network AUGUST 1978 Pierce • Simpson Carstensen Richards Keigher Stowell - - - - - - - - - N e w Landings--- -----Marian Simpson has been named program evaluator for Utah Department of sales representative for IML Freight, Inc. Criminal Justice, will concentrate oii the in Salt Lake City. A veteran IML emp- Judicial Department, district and circuit loyee, Simpson has experience in safety, court and other executive offices. sales administration and claims. She has A native of Detroit, Mich., Janis had ten years experience in transportation. Lynne Pierce, has been named public reIn her new position.she will have the re- lations specialist of the Salt Lake Valley sponsibility of sales coverage in the Convention and Visitors Bureau. For the southwest Salt Lake area. past four years she has been associated Four women have been appointed with S & H Motivation and Travel, Inc., budget analysts for the Utah State Depart- Chicago, Ill. as travel director, marketing ment of Finance: Sharon Keigher, and promotion specialist. ACSW, formerly adminstrative assistant At First Security Bank of Utah, N.A., for constituent services for the Department Denise L. Richards has been named of Social Services, will develop the mortgage loan officer at the Fourth South governor's proposed budget regarding the office. Her career with the bank began in Social Services Department ... Leslie 1977 when she joined the company"s manGoodloe·, previously statewide director of agement training program .. .Kay Stowell the Crime Prevention Program for the has been named mortgage loan officer, Utah Council on Criminal Justice, will Fourth South office. A First Security empanalyze the budget regarding business, loyee since 1971, she recently completed labor and agriculture the bank's management training departments ... Carolina Selby, former program ... At First Security Co., benefits senior business analyst for MEDCU, will manager Lou Ann Carstensen has been specialize in the higher and public educa- elected assistant vice president in the Pertion budget .. . Dorothy Owen, formerly sonnel Division. Nanaaemen1 Careers GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES AT McDONA-LD'S!! OPENINGS IN SALT LAKE CITY AND BOUNTIFUL There's more to it than just Hamburgers. You find yourself getting involved. If you haven't thought about a Manager's JOb at McDonald's, you should think about It now Our Managers run a big business .. a million dollar a year business This Is a challenging position. and the kind of 10b that starts you on your way up to a career in management. You will directly supervise 50-100 employees. and be responsible for the operation of one of the most successful restaurants in the world . Our Manaiement program will prepare you to become a recognized bus,ness leader In your community .. .much more quickly than you would think . It all depends on you and your amb1t1on . PROMOTION ... RECOGNITION ...AND REWARD ARE YOURS Because we're growing at a rate of almost 30°0 per year. opportunity for rapid advancement Is available as fast as you can absorb the training . We recognize talented. ambitious people and REWARD them with PROMOTIONS and MERIT increases Management or supervisory experience would be an asset . but it's not necessary . If you possess a combination of at least 6 years' progressively increasing educational and employment exposure and have proven your ability to succeed in some other field. that ' s fine with us. We offer a competitive salary . (over$ I 0,000 to start). with regular merit increases based on performance. and excellent fringe benefits including profit sharing ; stock purchase plan: medical . dental. and life insurance plans; paid vacation: and tuItIon reimbursement . "YOU, YOU'RE THE ONE!" so take charge of your future. Call us right now for a convenient interview. [phone] 9:00am to 4:00pm weekdays Or send a resume . or letter of interest, to J. O'Neill. McDonald ' s Corporation. 1381 East 2100 South. Salt Lake City. Utah 84106 . We Are An Eq ual 0 P P ortun1!Y Women in Law Find Promotions Two women in law have recently been' Eleanor Lewis, also a graduate of the appointed to prestigious positions in Salt U. of U., has been practicing law for over Lake City: Christine L. Fitzgerald, for- ten years. She was selected by Gov. merly trial counsel with Salt Lake Legal Matheson out of numerous candidates to Defenders, has been appointed assistant be the only woman among 33 newly apU.S. attorney; Eleanor S. Lewis, formerly pointed circuit court judges in Utah. adminstrative law judge with the Utah Department of Social Services, has been appointed by Gov. Matheson as circuit court ''I think the fact I was appointed may judge for Salt Lake and Summit Counties. augur well for the future of women in the In both cases, they are the first women judiciary,'' she says. ''While women have to hold these positions. • only recently become visible in the legal "I think my trial experience was an profession, I hope we soon see more important factor in my receiving this ap- women on the bench." pointment," says Fitzgerald. "Not many young lawyers receive the kind of experiJust before network went to press last ence I received at Legal Defenders, where month, Christine Meaders Durham, a lawyer with Johnson, Durham and Moxley I was in court every day. '' Where Fitzgerald was previously Qn of Salt Lake City, was appointed the new the defense side of criminal cases, she is 3rd District Court Judge by Gov. Mathenow prosecutor, intiating charges against son. She is the.first woman to be appointed people suspected of violating federal laws. to a district court in Utah. WANTED: PEOPLE WHO LIKE PEOPLE The UTAH TRANSIT AUTHORITY announces Open Recruitment for Bus Drivers. If you are not a professional driver we will train you. UTA offers excellent fringe benefits and starting salaries of $5. 22 per hour upon successf~I completion of a 3 week training course. QUALIFICATIONS: • Present positive p'ublic Image • Minimum of 21 years of age • Good Driving Record • Enjoy working with· people • Desire to learn and grow Applications may be obtained by cOlltacting Utah Transit Autllority 455 West 4th South Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 A copy of your individual Driving Record must be presented with your application. They can be obtained at the State Capitol Room 314, cost $1.00. UTAH TRANSIT AUTt;QRITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F network classified network AUGUST 1978 News.and Notes Increasing our Share Learn a Trade Women Receive Awards Job haring Women had a greater share of the jobs in Utah during May. According to Job Service, 38. 3 percent of . the people employed in non-agricultural jobs in Utah were women that month, compared to 38.2 for the previous four months and 38 .0 in January. . Women wanting to learn trades taught in apprenticeship programs now have·a new federal regulation supporting their efforts to become educated. The new rule, published in June by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, states that by June 19.7 9, 3 .1 percent of the work force involved in apprenticeship programs will be female. Steve Richins, director of Apprenticeship Outreach Program, Salt Lake City, is seeking comments-and ideas about how to implement the new rule. Contact him in SLC at 972-3161. While worn-en are struggling to retain jobs as anchorpersons or hosts in television news, women on National Public Radio are performing great feats and being honored for their efforts. For ·instance Susan Stamberg, co-host of '' All Things Considered" recently received a Clarion Award from Women in Communications, Inc. She received the award for ''The Interviews of Susan Stamberg,'' a five-part series of discussions with female artists who have used their art to conquer personal conflicts. Nina Totenberg, NPR's Supreme Court correspondent, was granted a certificate of merit in the American Bar Association's 1978 Gavel Awards competition. Linda Wertheimer was the first person ever to broadcast live from the floor of Congress. And the NPR series '' A Celebration of Women'' was awarded a Special Certificate of Commendation from the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). NPR programs are carried locally on KUER 90FM. A San Francisco organization, New Ways to Work, is conducting a pilot project to generate interest in ''job sharing.'' (Job Sharing is a work arrangement where two people hold responsiblity for what was formerly one full-time position.) New Ways, founded in 1972 in Palo Alto by Sydney B·rown, Barney Olmstead and Suzanne Smith, is one of the few centers in the nation finding jobs to be shared and training people to fill them. More information is available from New Ways to Work, 149 Ninth St., San Francisco, Ca. 94103. Network classified is a monthly feature. All ads accepted at the discretion of the publisher. Rates: 20 cents/word. Minimum ad, ten words. PO Box numbers and telephone numbers count as one word each; abbreviations, zip codes as one word each. Classified display (for camera-ready ads): $9/inch. Check or money order must accompany copy and be received not later than the 10th of the month prior to on-sale date. For further information call network/532-6095. service DO YOU NEED ALAWYER Legal Services at Reasonable Fees •Divorce or Legal Separation uncontested (both spouses sign papers) $225.00 plus $25.00 filing fee •Instructions on how to do your own simple uncontested divorce and how to prepare all necessary papers $75.00 •Adoption uncontested severance proceeding, $200.00 plus costs of court and publication •Bankruptcy - non business, no contested proceedings, individual $200.00 plus $50.00 filing fee. Wife and Husband $300.00 plus $100.00 court filing fee Information regarding other types of cases furnished on request. BRIAN M. BARNARD Attorney at Law 214 East Fifth South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Telephone: [phone] interior furnishings Custom Made Stained Glass Interior Landscapes . 339 South State, SLC 328-4088 Getting Over the Math Blues You're a whiz- graduated from high school, maybe a few - or even a dozenyears of college behind you. You can probably tell a noun from a verb, talk about European history and discuss the education of children fluently. But what do you do when you're asked to find 35 percent of 280? Or to interpret the statistics you've compiled? Or to be the dinner partner of a physical scientist? Historically, women have shied away from mathematics - and all its associate disciplines. Although the result has hurt our earning ability (we become ineligible for the high paying professions like engineering, science, business), we continue to dorpinate college majors like English, History and Education, and avoid the disciplines based on mathematical fluency. To help counteract this trend, a professor at Harvard University, Deborah Hughes Hallett, has written a book called Math for Regular People, and has developed course schedules using the book. The concept: teach the basics of math. What is a fraction? a percentage? What is the logic behind mathematical rules? PAGE 15 - employment opportunities Professional Sales Transportation Major transportation company seeks an experienced sales professional. Working out of Salt Lake, the employment package consists of base salary plus incentive and car allowance. Full benefit package. Sales experience in the transportation field desirable but not necessary. Reply in confidence to Wycoff, P.O. Box 366, SLC84110. WOMEN TO SERVE IN THE UTAH ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 39 days each year with Na- . tional. Guard. Full-time in event of war, National or State emergency. Applicant must have 12 or more years education. Ages 17-34. Must pass written and physical examination. Must meet requirements for security clearance. Recruiting Office P.O. Box 8000 Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 524-4015. LDS Hospital LDS Hospital is Mountain America's largest medical center - a 570-bed specialty care facility, affiliated with two outstanding universities . Privately owned and nonprofit, LDS Hospital is a major teaching, research and referral complex. It features : • Utah's most comprehensive inservice program • Tearn and primary nursing in any specialty • Computerized clinical lab work - patient monitoring - charting • 16-Room OR (one of U.S. highest openheart surgery volumes) • Active research programs with full-time medical directors • Flexible paid leave (23 days annually) credit union - free physicals - insurance -retirement • Competitive salary and differential pay Q Contact Kathryn Rice, R.N., LDS Hospital, 325 Eighth Ave. Nursing Salt Lake City, UT 84143. is our primary care Phone [phone]. wsHosPITAL pregnancy In Salt Lake City, a protege of Hallett, Right to Choice, Inc. Wendy Whitman, has begun teaching a We are working to keep all pregnancy alternaclass in the evenings at Westminster Col- tives available to Utah women. lege. Called Aftermath, it follows the o~t- Help us continue our efforts by sending a donaline of Hallett' s book and philosophy. tion to: P.O. Box 1143 '' Although people think math is abstract, S.L.C., Utah 84110 it is really no more abstract then language, and it's very logical," says Whitman. "The problem is, especially with Pregnancy testing-Birth control. Planned women, they just haven't learned the Parenthood Clinics in Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake basics,'' she continued. '' A recent survey City, Moab and Price. Check the white pages for local listings. Or call 487-8914, Salt Lake City. showed 92 percent of the women (compared with 43 percent of the men) entering • · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - University of California at Berkeley did so without four years of high school math.'' If we overcome the handicap of being intimidated by arithmetic and mathematics ''the world opens up to you,'' Whitman says. In her classes she stresses personal attention and detailed explanation. "Students can call me any time," she says. In addition to being available for personal help, Whitman says she tries to meet the needs of individual students. "I try to· find out why you are taking the class, and help you learn exactly the things you need to know,'' she says. The night class will be taught again during the Fall, beginning September 12. specialty shops Heidishirts is a shop in Salt Lake Custom transfers on t-shirts we do make. For schools and companies, private clubs too, We give fine group discounts to you! Use us. We love it. Heidishirts, 1035 E. 200 So., SLC 521-0167. PAGE 16 Caring continued from p. 1 network AUGUST 1978 Hatfield and Moretti, having discussed the issue·between themselves and among friends, have listed steps they think should be taken to improve nurses' lot, agreeing the nurses themselves should take responsibility for the change: •Nurses should re-educate the community and medical profession about the nurse's role, improving professionalism and accountability among co-workers. •Schools should provide more "reallife" training to avoid the crushing "reality shock" one gets when leaving the textbooks and entering the patient's room. •Nurses should work in "teams" with doctors. • Nurses need to provide united support for each other when presenting grievances or suggestions to management. Nurses should organize and lobby in the legislature. • Administration should outline stricter requirements and broader opportunities for continuing education. •Hospitals should provide management training opportunities for nursing admin'istration, including the head ''floor nurse". Gary Moretti: "We care about nursing. That's why we speak out." Something Constructive Getting What You Ask For In early June, nurses_in St. Mark's Hospital Emergency Room took an important first step toward improving their salary levels. They used the grievance process, available to all nurses, but rarely used. ''We had been griping at every break about our low salaries," says Nancy Ashby, RN in the Emergency Room. ''I thought I would do something construtive with those discussions, and see if the other nurses would support me.'' 20 ER nurses and they all verbally agreed 60 percent of them would walk out if ''we do not see some kind of monetary compensation for the stress we are facing.'' They all verbally agreed 60 percent -of them would walk out if "we do not see some kind of monetary compensation for the stress we are facing." "Something constructive" turned out to be a petition outlining two basic prob- "We care about nursing," says lems specific to the ER nurses. Ashby Moretti, "That's why we speak out." wrote about the stress ER nurses faced at Adds Hatfield, "Nursing is now a that time due to understaffing (five nurses dynamic profession. We've just got to or- had just given notice) and the 20 critical ganize and meet our growing needs before patients-per-shift summertime increase. the qualified people leave the profession.'' Secondly, she explained ER nurses are Although recent pay hikes alone will more skilled than other nurses, since they probably not totally mollify nurses' dis- are trained in psychiatric intervention, satisfaction, they may be a sign hospital crisis care and making initial assessments. administrators are willing to make She conluded the nurses' current changes. If nurses are willing to help direct salaries did not reflect these additional those changes, progress may be on its way skills. to Utah hospitals. Ashby showed the petition to the·other With assurance of the other nurses behind her, Ashby approached Marvel Davis, ER Clinical Coordinator, and give her the message. Davis took the petition to the ER administration· and told Ashby she was "working on it. " The nurses met three times with Dr. John Corkery and two other ER physicians throughout June, voicing their complaints and assuring· administration they were united in their efforts. "They told us there was no extra money in the budget right now," Ashby said, "and we told them to find some.'' The result: In early June the nurses received a pay raise. Ashby received a 13 percent increase (now $6 .44/hr); other nurses received a full 15 percent raise. While the nurses got what they asked for, however, they're not sure why they _ got it. St. Mark's raise came at the same time St. Mark's competitor, Intermountain Health Care, recommended pay hikes for nurses in its hospitals. So the nurses don't know whether the raise was a response to their request, or to action taken by a competitor. As ambiguous as the result may be, the action has affected the nurses as a group. They have had a taste of collective bargaining, and want to learn more about lobbying for themselves in the future. Most hardworking people get to retirement only to find very little waiting for them when they get there. No sunny vacations. No Europe-bound oceanliners. No funfilled retirement communities. 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