Network, April 1979

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. 2 No.1 60CENTS bulk rate u. s. postage paid permit no. 3008 salt lake city, utah address correction reguested 383 South 6th East Solt Lake City, Utah 84102 THE MONTHLY FOR UTAH'S WORKING WOMEN April 1979 "I've always been interested in the CD person living on the Q) edge of society, t_he c outsider." r. -----------i2111B---------------------------------- EXTRA .Q Orr - Hallet - Chisolm - Roni by Patty Hart Molen When Diane Orr began making documentaries for KUTY, she discovered that most of her films were about women. ''I've always been interested in the person living on the edge of society, the outsider," she says, "and in many ways, women have been outsiders. I like approaching stories too, that holds a personal interest for me.'' She explains that she believes women reporters initially imitated newsmen who often purported to be neutral and objective while they actually manipulated a story. "I think it's much better to explain your research and background and tell why you're drawing conclusions. As long as news are learning how to do that and are developing their own styles instead ofmimicking men.'' Though one of the founders of KUTV's Extra, Orr is currently working on longer documentaries which allow her to structure her own time and require less travel. As the mother of two children, Orr describes her life as '' a constant juggling act. I won't paint any superwoman picture." With television's grueling schedule, Orr is grateful for a mother-in-law who helps with child care. ''The whole system would fall through without her,'' she says. Although polls frequently give television administrators the message that audiences prefer men covering news, Orr says that Extra host Lucky Severson is committed to having both men and women on Orr: "Women in news ... are the air. "He spent six months searching for a qualified producer before hiring Teri developing their own styles Roni.'' Orr says Lucky and the other men instead of mimicking men." are open when conflicts come up. "The whole thing has been a consciousnessraising experience fot all of us. I think the sex-distinctions in work have disapyou're clear what side you're taking, that peared.'' can be a dynamic approach. Women in Orr strongly advises women interested in getting into television to get the technical skills that will make them hireable. ''There are hundreds of bright and interested young women who just don't have the hard-core video skills needed to get work with a TV station." How do they acquire the technical expertise? "Women need to push to get classes on the equipment that the schools have. They can't be afraid of that side of the trade. They need to push for the training and then go for it. Televisfon needs them.'' Hallet: "There are sometimes conflicts, but never along men vs. women lines." In many ways, work for Extra producer Judy Hallet is a feminist dream. She is in her first-choice career, filmmaking, working for what she calls ''the best local magazine show in the country; the next step up is 60 Minutes or Weekend." In addition, Extra's tightly-knit team of filmmakers and journalists "operates on a nostar, no-sexism basis. There are sometimes conflicts, but never along men vs. women lines." Judy has in Channel 2 the support of an employer ''willing to spend the money to produce something that's not only a service to the community, but is also consistently high-quality, and that' & extremely rewarding." When Judy and her husband, Stanley, adopted a Korean child last December, she was allowed to take three weeks off when he arrived and also cut her work-week back from 60 to 40 hours. Now she puts in four long workdays each we_e~, which leaves a three-day. weekend to spend with family. "I've had a lot of help," Judy acknowledges of her success in a business that demands long hours and lots of energy. The home load is shared by her husband and also by his mother, who picks up fouryear-old Jong Soo from mornings at nursery school and takes care of him afternoons. Judy believes in making the time continued on page 8 --- _____________ ,.. ______________________ _ I network April ·1979 PAGE2 ---netwo rk editorial - - - Jarman Will Be Missed One negative outcome of this year's legislative session was the announcement that Dr. Beth Jarman has resigned as Director of the Department of Community Affairs. Jarman had worked hard-to cut administrative overhead and to avoid overspending. She insisted that departmental employees give their best to their jobs and the public. The Legislature cut her budget extensively, prompting Jarman to suggest they were rewarding big departments which wanted to get even bigger. Her department was also reorganized and combined with Development Services, with no assurance that she would head the combined department. Jarman's defection to private industry will be a loss to women in government. Not only did her department carry out housing and other programs for low-income people, but she was practically alon~ in state government in appointing women to positions of importance. She smarted at occasional references to herself as a "token" appointment, but nobody accused her of being a "queen bee." As the first woman in Utah's history to head a major state agency, she was a role model and inspiration to other aspiring women. Women adminsitrators at all levels in state government have consistently made up five or six percent of all administrators for several years. We have seen little progress. Jarman's resignation raises questions about whether that percentage can be changed, whether the bureaucracy is so throughly entrenched as a male system that progress is impossible. Jarman has been silent on any underlying reasons, beyond the legislative action, for her resignation. But Capitol watchers have long wondered whether she was accorded the same support (or indifference) as male department heads. Her "style" was undoubtedly difficult for many bureaucrats: She is direct, warm, charismatic, and sometimes merciless in assessing programs or people. But beyond style, her sex seemed to be a factor. At the least tremor from her agency, some Capitol functionaries delighted in predicting her imminent removal from office, while looking the other way when male department heads floundered with problems in their own departments. Our fantasy is that Jarman's resignation will create some soulsearching on Capitol Hill about why we lose talented, articulate women from public service, about what kinds of support and encouragement are needed to integrate excluded groups, and about whether it is really necessary for all department heads to look and talk alike. But we are too hesitant about the poss\b\\ity of such soul-searching to think of it as more than a fantasy. We will miss Beth Jarman in state government. We wish her well in the new path she has chosen. Brenda Hancock Legislative Report I love you, Salt Lake At midnight on March 8th, the 1979 General Session of the Utah State Legislature adjourned amid mixed reactions of relief, disappointment happiness and frustration. Since that time, the rhetorical haze has cleared, and Capitol watchers can clearly view the accomplishments and failures of Utah's 100 male and four female legislators. The 12,000 Utah women who head households with incomes below 125% of the poverty level are especially vulnerable to the variations of legislative decision-making. Because a large percentage of female-headed households are poor and because nearly 90% of families receiving public assistance are headed by women, the establishment of tax relief, social service and hoursing programs become in large measure, women's issues. The welfare grant level, availability of day care, medical assistance, tax relief for low-income renters, and landlord-tenant legislation are of vital concern to these families. Each of these areas deserves a closer examination for the low-income woman's viewpoint. -The major issue of the 1.979 _, By Irene Fisher legislature was, without question, tax relief. Republicans, who controlled both the House and the Senate wanted to target the bulk of relief toward middle- ·a nd upper-income homeowners. They articulated on the floor and to the press that these are the people who pay the taxes. Democrats, in the minority, argued that a primary cause for Utah's tax surplus is the heavy reliance on the sales tax, the burden of which falls most heavily on lower income families. Therefore they argued relief should include removal of the sales tax on food, and property tax relief aimed at the lower income property tax payers, including renters, who are hardest hit by inflation. The results of this philosophical conflict created mixed outcomes for low-income women. Homeowners will receive $100 or 25% of their tax bill, whichever is greater. Renters (and 50% of low-income families fall in this category) will receive $100 or 2-112% of rent, whichever is greater. This money will be available next fall at property tax time. Widows of any age and all those over 65 can receive additional property tax relief through the-"circuit f)reaker" ' I Page3 about $9 million. This action has already caused many reductions in services such as dental care, eye care, medical supplies, medical transportation, over-counter drugs and elective surgery. With pressure from low-income citizens, the medicaid eligibility level was maintained at its current level. Several measures came before the legislature which affect housing situations for Utah's low-income families. For the past six years Utah has appropriated money to local governments for.the purpose of improving low-income housing in their communities. Most of the money has gone to rehabilitate homes of families who cannot afford the repairs themselves. Widows especially have been helped by this program. The Governor recommended $2 million for this program; the legislature appropriated $500,000. Although the amount is less than anticipated, supporters are pleased that the program still exists. Three bills seeking legal help for problems of landlords and tenants were defeated in the session. Because such a large percentage of low-income women rent, and because a high percentage of lowincome renters have no lease agreement, they are heavily affected by actions of irresponsible landlords. One bill was designed to end the fraudulent practice of some landlords who refuse to return rental Rep.Bill Hawkes explained deposits, even when they are how pov.erty enables rightfully owed to the tenant. The bill have mandated written notice would people to develope self to tenants as to why their deposit was discipline and a strong being held, and punitive damages for those landlords who "willfully and moral chariacter. wrongfully" withhold deposits. This bill passed the House on reconsideration, after heated floor debate in which Representative Proponents of social service Sherm Harmer (R-Salt Lake) programs designed to help lowsuggested that "tenants don't income citizens watched as a Social deserve equal rights." It died a quiet Services Appropriations Subdeath in the Senate sifting committee committee, with many new without receiving floor consideration. legislators committed to the primary A bill concerning landlord remedies goal of cutting taxes, went to work on for abandoned rental property died establishing budgets for welfare similarly. The third and probably most grants, day care and medical crucial bilr would have specified the assistance. Representative Bill responsibilities of landlords and Hawkes (R-Kearns) explained how tenants in upkeep of rental units. poverty enables people to develop Landlords who rent units without heat, self-discipline and a strong moral with faulty plumbing, leaking roofs, character, as he attempted to cut etc. could have been brought to public assistance benefits by as court and mandated to meet basic much as 15%. The final appropriation health and safety codes. Likewise, for public assistance grants included landlords would have been granted a 4% inflationary adjustment. In light recourse against irresponsible renters of actual increases in the cost-of- who damage property or maintain it living (9%), this adjustment equals a in an unsanitary manner. This bill died reduction of 5%. Welfare grants after in committee. Thus, housing July 1, 1979 will be: $253 for a family of counseling agencies and judges are 2 - $321 for a family of 3, and $389 again left with no legal remedies to for a famJly of four. deal with the growing number of Legislators appeared convinced landlord-tenant disputes. that day care services are essential to This is by no means an exhaustive enable female-headed households discussion of the legislative actions on welfare in low-income brackets to affecting low-income women. It does work toward self-sufficiency. The Sub- attempt to treat the decisions which • will have the most direct economic Committee approved a supplemental appropriation for the effect upon these women and their remainder of this fiscal year and a families. work-load increase for next fiscal It is impossible to note that the year that they were told should be' legislative process is designed to sufficient to maintain day care respond to the expressed needs of services at the current level. The citizens. The daily barrage of letters, Department of Social Services still calls and personal visits to legislators fears they may have difficulty can and should influence their maintaining services with the funds decisions. But low-income women, _ allocated. usually faced with the task of rearing The Sub-Committee reduced the children alone, earning an income to total Medical As~istarce pudg~t by supportth0se c-hildren, and facing mechanism if they have annual incomes less than S7000. Low-income families, who spend a higher than average percent of their income on food, would have benefited from the elimination of sales tax on food. Despite a citizens petition with over 30,000 signatures requesting the elimination of this tax, the Senate defeated thfs form of relief and the House refused even to vote on it. Those interested in removing this regressive tax hav~ indicated they will seek to place the issue before the people at the 1980 election. On the plus side, the legislature did establish a head-of-household tax rate which will enable single headsof-households to file their income tax at the same rate as married couples filing jointly. However a proposal to allow an income tax credit for day care expenses failed to receive a hearing. Thus, there is no allowance for day care expenses at the state level, although all other business expenses are deductible. Overall, it can be said that the pressures of lowincome groups and 2-party debate created a final tax package which had more help for low-income citizens than the original proposals. But the major benefits of the tax relief package still go to businesses and middle- and upper-income homeowners. the problems of life alone, find it most difficult to summon additional energies to become involved in the legislative decisions which affect their lives. Despite these drawbacks, a group of low-income women are beginning to organize a politicalaction group. If you are interested, call Utah Issues (467-4825) for contact names. Families Below the Poverty Level by Type of Family: 1959 and 1976 1959 Total Families Below the Poverty Level: 8.0 million _,,__ _ _ Male housholder, no wife present 4% Female householder no husband present 20% 1976 Total Families Below the Poverty Level: 5.3 million Male householder, no wife present Female householder, no husband present 48% 3% U.S. Department of Commerce BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Are women in a double bind? How often do you hear that women shourd stay home with their children? And yet how often have you heard that people should get off welfare? Nine out of ta people on welfare are women with small children. How can they do both things? Over half of these women are under 29 years old with little or no work experience. The jobs that they can find are low paying dead-end jobs which rarely pay enough for the necessities of life plus the high cost of child care. These women need our support and encouragement, not added societal pressure. Together we can make it u,ork. Marcy Bennett Wilkinson Realtors 531-6680 network April 1979 Page4 Single Women Winning The New 'Old Maid' Game "Once you're past 27, people don't worry about you anymore. They finally see that you can be happy without being married." -Ann King, 31 years old, former elementary school teacher, current graduate student, Utah State University, Dept. of Forestry and Outdoor Recreation "A woman owes it to herself to assume that she's going to be alone all her life. If someone else comes along, that's great! But she can still take care of herself should she ever need to." -Kathy Hale, 33 years old, Senior Sales Representative, Xerox Corporation "I still believe I'll marry someday, but I'd rather be single and full of life than live in a lifeless marriage." -Linda Ostler, 32 years old, Tai Chi instructor, Privately and in Community Schools Single women experience close relationships, pressures at home and on the job, conflicts and harmony with themselves and others. Here they are no different from married women or men. Theirs is an independent lifestyle some would say a selfish lifestyle - yet the women interviewed here are all generous, accepting, warm and supportive toward others. They are selfassured and confident. They may be alone, but they are not lonely. Much of their confidence has been gained through success at work. By the time most women reach the age of thirty they have made some important decisions about the direction they choose to take in their lives. The woman who has realized that she has control over her own life, that she makes conscious decisions about where she's going and what she's doing achieves greater satisfaction in life, whether she is married or unmarried. Perhaps today's single woman merely encounters fewer obstacles than her married counterpart. There are, nevertheless, obstacles - internal and external barriers she has had to break through. One of the most obvious frustrations for the single woman is living in a culture that caters to couples. We watch movies about couples, hear romantic songs about being "together," receive invitations with "and partner" written on the envelope, are bombarded by ads where people are clearly happiest in pairs. How then does the single woman cope with such pressures? Does she internalize them, feeling that she needs a mate? Or is she happy in spite of it all? The women who shared their thoughts and experiences with network agreed that they had felt some internal pressures, especially in their early 20's, which seemed to coincide with external influences such as family, peers and society. However, sometime between the ages of twenty-six and thirty, the pressures diminished greatly. Whether the women became more confident with themselves and were less affected by the well-meaning comments of friends and relatives, or whether others merely became less concerned about their single status is uncertain. Many factors enter in here, including an awareness that some of their married friends had begun having problems themselves. Ann King feels that people just stopped worrying, yet she also mentioned that after she began her teaching career, she was increasingly happier and more satisfied with her life. "When I was really on my own, I became more confident with myself and what I could do." women may rely on their husbands to meet all their emotional needs, but single women generally have a network of supportive friends ranging from dose companions and family to acquaintances and colleagues. These support groups enrich anyone's life, and the single woman who cultivates such groups finds added joy and richness in her life. Does the single woman want to marry someday? It depends. Linda Ostler feels that marriage is the purest "bonding" relationship. She believes she will marry someday. She feels a certain emptiness in being responsible to herself alone. "There is a longing for a permanent relationship with someone. 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A relationship which is controlled by roles, which many marriages become, is not satisfying, stimulating or happy." The LDS Church, with its primary focus on family life, creates an obvious conflict for its single members. It is a problem socially for those who are not married by the time they are thirty years old. Kathy, a convert to the LDS Church, has had to deal with this situation. She notes that single men are also faced with this problem. "We don't fit in anywhere. Most young people move from Mutual to Marriage, so activities for members my age are generally family oriented. There are some programs for singles, but they take the 'dating game' approach. I'm not interested in that any more." In addition to the social conflicts' for single Mormons, they must also cope with a religious doctrine which states that a member cannot reach the highest Celestial Kingdom unless he or she is married in the Temple. Singles don't seem to fit in literally "anywhere" in the LDS Church - here or in the hereafter. Children often bring joy to the lives of parents. Single women have considered the possibility of having children. Yet Linda, Ann and Kathy agree that they do not want children outside marriage. All do not agree, however, that they will someday be married and have children. Linda thinks she will. "I would like to have children or a child someday. I feel it will happen in time. I know it will happen." Linda and Kathy both said they had at some point in their lives wanted a number of children, but now both would Not all single women are looking for a Kathy Hale discussed the strains she be satisfied with one child. Kathy the while But partner. a was marriage "There 20's: early felt during her discussed some of the advantages and time in my life when I was obsessed with unmarried woman may not be looking for a husband, she does not necessarily • disadvantages related to marriage and being married. I was brought up, like childbearing later in one's life. "When reject men. Kathy has been asked if most women, with romantic ideals of a older, you see more clearly. There you're justify to having like don't "I gay. she's her All 'happily ever after' lifestyle." friends were married and the questions myself, yet I become defensive and feel I are less romantic notions and ideals about marriage. However, when you're must explain that I'm NORMAL!" Ann began to race through her head: "Why younger, you are more flexible, less set feels men often misunderstand her am I not married yet? Is something in your ways, and children require that warm personality. "They (men) don't wrong with me?" flexibility." All three women were emphatic about expect women to be able to be warm the fact that they did not NEED marriage to make them happy. Happiness comes One of the most obvious frustrations for the single woman is from within. Some married women are happy and others are miserable. Single living in a culture that caters to couples ... movies about women express similar feelings. Kathy's couples ... songs about living together ... invitations with outlook changed after ten years. Now "and partner" ... ads where people are clearly happiest in she claims, "You can be happy and pairs. fulfilled without being married. I feel good about my work. I see my job as a career and not 'just a job.' " Self esteem The single woman is aware of the and affectionate without looking for and the knowledge that women can stigma often attached to her. Not long permanent involvement." make it on their own contributes to the ago she was considered an "old maid"; A strong priority for single women, amount of satisfaction they feel within. a is marry, to male counterpart, a "bachelor." As decide her they should "On the other hand, when I'm having a male/ Traditional husband. we played a card game called supportive children sound can marriage work at bad day "Old Maid." The loser is left holding a female roles are not acceptable to great!" women who have taken out the garbage single, scowling, old woman, the only Does the single woman's card in the deck without a mate. every week for years and made major independent lifestyle affect described best These women don't evoke an image Ann decisions. financial this ways many In relationships? freedom actually enhances her ability to this feeling when she said, "Men can be of the "Old Maid." They are not "losers." They love and grow and change. Don't terrific friends and companions in an experience satisfying relationships with equal relationship. If they can accept you we all? others - male and female. Married PAGES network April 1979 Only When I Laugh Elouise Bell The Mugwump the next mail.) But I flipped casually through this unordered book, keeping an open mind. After all, if this was something the other club members felt strongly about, who was I to demur? Suddenly, amid some breath-takingly explicit photographs, I read an account of a campfire session the author had presided over in company with an encounter group she has formed. Only instead of telling ghost stories or singing "Tell Me Why," this groups was, and I quote, "invoking the spirit of Mother Orgasm." I slammed the book shut and ran down the street after the mailman's jeep, heaving the book in its back window as it rounded the tum. Lately, however, the book club has been sending me sheaves of propaganda for such items as "Eighteen Things You Can Make Out Of Shell Macaroni Besides Food" and "Macrame Your Way Through the Menopause." Their identity crisis must be even bigger than mine - but then, they're younger. Let me return to the Houston experience for one last example. When we flew home, virtually all the Utahns, whether pro, con, or supposedly neutral press, came in the same plane. The AntiIWY group took over the front of the cabin, the Pro-Plan the rear half. Appropriately enough, I sat in the middle of the plane. Before long, a woman from the front got up and began passing a box of chocolates around among her sister delegates. When she came to the midway point, she paused, smiled graciously, and offered me a chocolate. (I abstained.) Then she went back to her seat. When she had left, a woman across the aisle, by her own definition a rather militant feminist, asked me, "Why did she offer you a chocolate but none of us?" I thought about the question a moment. Then I looked her in the eye and said, 'Tm a double agent." I feel that way a lot. But in my best moments, I know the feeling is misguided. It may seem as if Utah women are divided into two armed camps, with battle lines not only drawn but set in concrete (or maybe granite). It may appear that the No-Woman's-Land in the middle is ·vast and unpopulated. But I don't believe it. From feminists themselves among the most radical, I have time and again heard an urgency about values such as growth, family stability, the needs of children, and how the institution of marriage can best be nurtured - all values that "non-feminists" claim as their priorities. From women who loudly assert that they are not for "women's liberation," I have repeatedly heard fervent opposition to inequity on the basis of sex, rigidity of roles, and people living other people's lives for them - all values that are dear _to feminists. I am not saying .anything so simplistic as "We all want the same things." By and large, I believe we do all want many of the same things. But as long as women have the wisdom to distinguish between the means and the end, and to insist that the end does not justify the means, we will have arguments about the means, about how to achi~e those goals we share. But do we have to have double agents? Obviously, no person of integrity can talk out of both sides of her inouth, supporting one stand on an issue at one moment and an opposite stand at another, according to expediency. But must we buy our issues by the gross, in a Saran-wrapped "please-donot - remove - individual - popsicles" package? Is it possible for women who have alliances and allegiances in both camps to feel doubly supportive instead of doubly disloyal? I don't know the answers to those questions. I can say that I agree with Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin oflittle minds." And surely it's clear from what I've said so far that I find myself, at different times, on the left, the right, and in the middle. But I may not be a good example of fence-jumping: frequently l lack the courage, nerves, and judgment to clear the hurdles with grace. If anyone out there has some good practical advice on the matter, I'd love to hear /, it. -In the meantime, I think I'll go see what the book club has sent me this month. Two days into the conference, the In the struggle for the advancement of any cause, no one is a more popular jogger was taken aside by her Eastern target than the fence-sitter. But I'm here feminist friends and asked what in the to tell you that the position of the mug- world she could possible find to talk wump, while never a comfortable one, about with those two Mormon women she was sometimes seen with. This time may frequently be valid. ("Mugwump," incidentally, was a I felt like Carrie Nation in a singles' bar, 19th-centure coinage for the person and an axeless Carrie at that. Fire one who sat with "mug" on one side of the from the left! At least I'm not alone in experiencing fence and "wump" on the other. For anyone with a ''wump'' the dimensions this kind of schizophrenic jolt. Two Salt of mine, the balancing act involved is not Lake City women who are in the very forefront of the feminist movement in an easy one!) Being a fence-sitter is especially diffi- the state (and thus considered foaming cult in Utah, for surely no state in the radicals by a good share of the local Union has quite as many armed camps citizenry) went to a women's conference as we do, complete with dividing fences. in San Francisco, where they were Of course, the fact is that the fence- openly sneered at in a meeting as "oversitter, in most cases, doesn't really sit. It dressed, elitist grandmothers." Or take Houston. I went to Houston only seems that way to disparaging partisans on either side. What she really with a high heart and a predisposition in does is hop wildly from side to side, favor of most of the propositions depending on the particular issue being claiming just a couple of exemptions. I attacked or advanced. Besides getting hadn't been off the plane five minutes winded, a woman who adopts this life- still standing inside the railings waiting style can end up with deep frown-lines, for my baggage to swirl off the conveyor chronic identity crisis, and sometimes belt - when a woman in bib overalls and lineman's boots came up to tell us terminal paranoia. The greatest danger, however, is nei- about a "Know Yourself' anatomy ther anxiety nor paranoia, nor even workshop and self-help clinic that some indecision. It's the risk you run of being women - doctors, nurses, and explorers generally - were hosting that afterbranded traitor by both sides. Pardon me for being personal, as we noon in a downtown hotel suite. I gasay in church, but take my case. (And thered that it was a B.Y.O.S. affair surely there's a Goodwill lawyer some- Bring Your Own Speculum. Devout where who will!) After I went to Mexico coward that I am, I was so unnerved I City in 1975 for the IWY Tribune, along was ready to take the next Trailways with 35 other Utah women, I wrote a back to Utah, stitching in a protective simple, straight-forward little feature art- drawstring around the bottom of my icle about the trip for The Salt Lake Tri- long skirt as I went. But of course I stayed in Houston. And bune. I quoted some of the tour members on their impressions, gave one or when I attended (because. I had to) the two innocuous personal reactions, and "Pro-Family" rally being held across TM had a lot to say about the pyramids and town in the Astrodome as part of the Our goal at network is to publish the stories and Phoenix Center the colorful turbans of the African dele- thumb-your-nose-at-IWY campaign, I Publisher information which will be relevant to your lives gates. (Admittedly a pretty blah account, stepped out of the taxi to see a huge sign and put you in touch with others whose problems Marj Bradley Editing but then I wasn't much of a feminist in lettered (please forgive me for repeating and successes may be similar to yours. We are Betty Fife 1975. On the other hand, there are those the obscenities, but this was my nastyall working women, whether we are paid or not. Brenda Hancock Many of us have several jobs; most of us are Karen Shepherd who say I'm not much of a feminist now, tasting "welcome-to-reality" medicine): constantly struggling to improve the way we Lynne Van Dam "We Don't Need Kikes and Dykes." which is my point exactly!) meet the many demands made on us. All of us Anyway, the day after the Trib article Another read: "Five Million Dollars from Circulation Helen Robinson can profit from others' experiences. to sick was I I.W.Y." Spells J-E-W-S the came out, one friend of long standing called another friend of even longer my stomach and sick at heart. The two Design Network wlecomes manuscripts (including poetCris Coffey ry and fiction), art, photographs and cartoons but standing to report that the women in her hours spent inside the building, listening assumes no responsibility for those that are unJimmie Barrow neighborhood were sounding the alarm. to Phyllis and a movie-message from Advertising solicited. They will not be returned unless acLinda ltami my improve didn't others, among Anita, membership church my feared They companied by a stamped, self-addressed enveLinda Ostler might be injeopardy because I had writ- spirits. Constantly in my line of vision lope. All letters, manuscripts (including poetry Barbara Richards and fiction), art, photographs and cartoons sent ten the newspaper account of the IWY was a sign four feet by four feet which Photography John Schaefer will be treated as assigning all publication rights Conference. (Bear in mind that this was read, "RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH for copyright purposes and as subject to unretwoyeaisbefore the Utah IWY skirmish.) MISSISSIPPI." I went out looking for a Contributing Artists stricted right to edit and to comment editorially. Jerri Brown, The next time I went to dinner at the first place to buy some bib overalls or a Josie Fife, Marilyn Fryer, friend's home, I felt like Angela Davis at a speculum - or both. The publication is independent. Views expresKirk Henrichsen, Brad Wolverton. sed herein are those -0f the writers and do not Even my women's book club seems Kennecott Stockholders' meeting. Fire necessarily reflect those of the management. Boshard, Cynthia Writers Contributing I on. s it· side which about confused one from the right! Marj Bradley, Beverly Burge, The following fall I went to a confer- joined the club in hopes of building a Carolyn Campbell, Al Church, Network is published monthly. Send all correence of the Women Historians of the good feminist library- and I thoroughly Ann Fadel, Cecilia Fannon, spondence to 383 South 600 East, Salt Lake Betty Fife, Irene Fisher, Midwest in Minnesota. Two other enjoyed my first year, reading great City, Utah 84102. [phone]. Copyright Keller, Margo Frear, Ruth Doris Janeway, Elizabeth by books I woman LDS an Utahns went also, one 1979 by network. Reproducttion without permisKate McMahon, Patty Hart Molen, knew quite well, who thought, spoke, Lessing and Marilyn French. Then one Jeri Parker, Diana Potts, sion is porhibited. Title network is registered. and dressed pretty much as I did. (The day I got a book I hadn't meant to order. Mary Raffini, Nancy Roberts, term she herself used for the dress style (You know the kind of deadline arrangeKaren Shepherd, Joyce Skidmore, Phil Sullivan, Lynne Van Dam was "Mormon Dowdy.") The other ments the book clubs have: if you don't Subscription $7.00/year. Utahn was a lean U. of U. faculty mem- return the little postcard in time, you get Contributing Editors Elouise Bell, ber who wore levis, braids, and occa- the entire contents of the now-defunct Brenda Hancock, Eloise McQouwn, . , , ., . -Carol.Shelton, Dodie Williams sionally justjogging shorts and a T-shirt. West Boot) M_o)'\tijna, Puplic Libr:ary, in . network Page6 "A potter brings his clay into center on the potter's wheel, and then gives it whatever shape he wishes. There are wide correspondences to this process." -M.C. Richards - Centering In Pottery, Poetry and The Person. network April 1979 CENCE~N JfTu[{Grde ca,Uiufa,-- The imag~ry of centering is universal. Dancing and sports stress the "center" of gravity. Many Eastern philosophies are based on "centering the vital energies of the body." Referring back to the potter and his clay, when the pot gets off-center or unbalanced, it crumbles, flies off the wheel or in some other way is APRIL ~ destroyed. Thus the image of an un1 HATHAYOGA Sivananda Yoga Center, Monday-Saturday; Meditation service Friday & balanced pot often relates to people who Saturday, 328-1470 after 5 p.m. find themselves pushed and pulled in many directions by the hectic stresses 1-30 ROLANG Miraa Joanne Neill, call 531-1190. and strains of modern society's frantic 2 VEGETARIAN COOKING Guru Tera Khalsa, Creative cooking for transition diets, Wednesdays, pace. Tom and frustrated, people be6:30-8:30 p.m., 3HO Foundation, call 364-3228. come-angry, depressed and emotionally 2 Ram Das Singh, Techniques for release of tension, rejuvenation & KUNDALINI YOGA & MEDITATION fatigued. emotional stability, 3HO Foundation, call 364-3228. Regaining or retaining a balance is a must for physical, mental and emotional 4 DISCO DANCING Paul Wilding, 7:30-9:00 p.m. until May 23, Walker Hall, Westminster health. For the well being of the total College, $40.00 couple. • person, centering on the vital energies of 4-5 Westminster Continuing Education. A multi-faceted look at health from THE PRISM OF WELL BEING the body and mind may allow freedom nutrition to exercise, call 484~8831. from anxiety and depression. 6-7 McMullen, A Booth, Aikins, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Malouf Hall 125, LITERATURE OF ATONEMENT Susan Stordahl, Director of Training Westminter College, 1 semester hour or $25.00 no-credit at the Phoenix Institute, uses the analogy of a tree to help women in her work7 BODY-WORK Melinda Bauer, For .people in helping professions, exploring the deeper shops come closer to understanding conection between energy flow, stress and its manifestation in the body, 10 their own center. "If the tree is wella.m. to 5:00 p.m., call 364-2946. rooted with deep tap roots it can withNOON MOVEMENT CLASS Linda Ostler, Stretching and creative movement, 12:00-1:00, Tuesdays, stand the blasts of the wind and storm 10 Phoenix Center, 383 South 600 East, call 532-6095, $4.00 per class. when they come. If the base is shallow WOMEN'S TENNIS University of Utah vs. Northern Colorado, 2:00 at University of Utah. and weak, the shifting winds will uproot 12 the tree that has no grounding." 13 University of Utah vs. Colorado State University, 1:00 and 3:00, University WOMEN'S SOFTBALL Elie Horai, who established the Polyof Utah. nesian Pulse where she teaches acuEMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Hilbert, 6:00-10:00 Fridays, 9:00 a.in. - 5:00 p.m. Saturdays until June 22, pressure, says, "When we don't under- ·13 Westminster College, Malouf Hall, 5 semester hours $225.00. stand our own center, when we lack selfconfidence, self-esteem and a clear self- 18 ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOR WORKSHOP Jinnah Kelson, Beginning, For men, 7:30-10:00 p.m. for 7 weeks, Phoenix image, it's unsettling." Center, 383 South 600 East, for reservations and information call Bonnie McBeth, 484-0679, $60.00. Both women stressed that we can't give what we don't have, that it begins 18 ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOR WORKSHOP Bonnie McBeth, Beginning, For women, 7 :30-10:00 p.m. for 7 weeks, with knowing and accepting ourselves, Phoenix Center, 383 South 600 East, for reservations and information call taking responsibility for who we are and Bonnie McBeth, 484-0679, $60.00. who we want to be by positively reinBonnie McBeth, For women, 7:00-10:00 p.m. for 6 weeks, Phoenix Center, ADVANCED ASSERTIVENESS forcing it. Elie asserts that finding a 19 383 South 600 East, for reservations and information call Bonnie McBeth, balance between the three dimensions 484-0679, $60.00. of our emotional, physical and mental 20-21 Senior Choreographer's Concert, 4:30 and 8:00 p.m. (20th), 8:00 p.m. DANCE being is the key. (21st), University of Utah Dance Building Theatre Room 208 Physically, there are many ways to achieve a sense of centering. Both wo- 21 AWARENESS 1979 Grant Gudmansen & Dr. Ellen Bessie, Ph.D., Psychic Development, men agree that it is important to be in Psycho-poetry workshop, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., Tri-Arc Travel Lodge, '$35.00, call 532-3951. tune with nature, with the natural rhythms and cycles. Physical practices such 21 Sponsored by the Salt Lake City Chapter of the N.O.W., 12:00-6:00 p.m., ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR as jogging, dancing, stretching and Unitarian Church, 569 South 1300 East, Call 363-1049. sports help in the long run to increase NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION J-lolistic Health Conference, Hotel Utah, all day. our natural sensitivity. But often on busy 21-22 days we get that feeling of being set on 24 WOMEN'S TENNIS University of Utah vs. Weber State, 2:00 p.m. at University of Utah. edge, off-center, out of balance, tense. 26 Sales and Marketing Executives present an in-depth seminar to assist the CAREER WOMEN SEMINAR Susan calls it "prickly." We need relief career woman. Call 521-2623 ask for Katie. $40-pre-registered, $45-at the before we can continue the task we are door, includes luncheon. about Some suggestions for recouping 26-29 in stress situations: Iyengar Instructor, Beginning to advanced, $10.00 session, Call Toby YOGA WORKSHOP Lafferty, 272-6684. 1. Breathing. Sounds simple enough ' but studies show that we use only a small 28 ANGER WORKSHOP Bonnie McBeth, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Phoenix Center, 383 South 600 portion of our lung capacity, thereby East, fo( reservations and information call 484-0679, $40.00. starving the cells of oxygen, especially in the brain which needs a greater amount of oxygen to function effectively. Just a MAY few seconds of long, slow breathing can •work surprising changes of mood. 5 NEW AGE WOMAN Workshop in communication, self-defense, yoga, vegetarian lunch, S.S. 2. Relaxing. Just close your eyes, Krishna Kaur, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $20.00, see calendar. breathe, and give yourself permission to 6 S.S. Krishna Kaur, Black belt Karate teacher, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 3HO SELF-DEFENSE relax for a moment Foundation, call 364-3228, $20.00. 3. Change focus. Pick up a book, knit, take a short walk, etc. Mentally, we give ourselves messages. Susan says centering is "knowing tion." emotional, may cause us to feel off- Network Emotionally, our non-cognitive selves center. The balance is delicate. At net- Centering--------what we need and risking saying it to someone; organizing our priorities and also need renewal and refurbishment work we ume you to find a way that then giving ourselves credit for staying Stopping to take time for a sunset, ·a pleases and surprises you. 383 South 600 East on target. It's a real aliveness for me." symphony or creative outlets can add A final message from Susan's wall Salt Lake City, Utah 84102. Elie suggests constant bombardment of inspjration to our lives. poster - THE TIME YOO MOST NEED Attention: Linda Ostler An imbalance in any one of our three TO RELAX IS WHEN YOO DON'T positive thoughts, affirming our -goals , Phone: [phone] every day, "understanding our funcdimensions - physical, mental __and HAVE TIME. Page? network April 1979 On the Job Brenda Hancock Shortchanged And Slighted Suppose someone gave you millions of dollars to set up programs to help unemployed and poor people in Utah, and you wanted to develop jobs and training programs for them. Suppose you also knew the following facts: - About half of Utah's women over 16 work for pay - in 1977 the same percentage as in the rest of the United States. - The unemployment rate for women in Utah and the U.S. is consistently higher than the rate for men (6.0 compared to 4.9 in Utah in 1977). - Most working women are employed in low-paying clerical and service jobs and earn about sixty cents for every dollar earned by men. - Utah women are more lik~ly (than other U.S. women) to be divorced, and, since they have twice as many children as women in the rest of the country, they have more children to support. Now design your program for jobs and training. Undoubtedly you would make sure that about half the people you setved would be women, including minority women, who suffer the greatest economic disadvantage. You would probably provide good child care while parents received training. You would undoubtedly develop special programs to reach women, particularly women who have given up hope offmdingjobs. You would certainly want to train women clients for better jobs than the lowpaying clerical and service jobs they could get on their own, which pay little better than welfare. Wouldn't you? Although the millions are there and the facts are there, not only in Utah but throughout the country, the powers that control the millions have somehow not always reached the same logical conclusions as you and I about the kind of programs needed. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973 was the conduit for sharing millions in federal revenue with state and local governments. CETA's purpose is_"to provide job training and employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed and underemployed persons, and to assure that training and other services lead to maximum employment opportunities and enhance self-sufficiency." "Significant segments" ·including women and minorities, are targeted for special attention. It sounds good. But how does it work? Wider Opportunities for Women has just released a report demonstrating on the national level what many of us have long known, that women in CETA programs are "shortchanged and slighted." WOW examined national CETA Title III training programs funded directly by the U.S. Department of Labor (not through local governments). Their report concludes: (1) Only 4 of 50 programs, 1.4 percent of the 1978 budget, were designed for women. (2) Only 19 percent of clients seived were women. (3) Most of the women who were trained were placed in traditional "female" jobs - low skill, low pay and dead ended. WOW Project Director Betsy Cooley concluded, "Men coming through these programs often become apprentices or skilled craft workers in unions: women end up as clerks in the union offices." What is the picture in Utah? When I compared WOW's conclusions to the local scene I found a less dismal picture here than nationally, but there is room for progress. It should be remembered that most decisions on distributing CETA money are made 1Jy local planning councils, usually app mpriately called manpower planning councils. Sometimes the members voting to keep new programs out are associated with existing programs which do not want to share funding. Other members operate under misconceptions about the kinds of jobs women can do, or where women belong, or how "different" Utah's working women are. The councils are overwhelmingly male. Special Projects. As with national programs, Utah planning councils seem reluctant to fund programs aimed specifically at women - though several act for other groups, such as youths and minorities. Of the state-wide programs, only 1 of 15 youth programs targets young women. Two minimally-funded programs are part of the nine State Manpower Services programs: The YWCA received only $15,000 in 1978 (the lowest grant awarded) to help find jobs for battered wives and exoffenders, and the State Office of Equal Employment Opporunity receives enough to hire only a part-time staff person for a Skills Bank which primarily setves women. The situation is worse on the county and city level. Better Jobs for Women at the Utah Technical College in Provo receives limited funding. The Phoenix Institute in Salt Lake County has recently had CETA funding to do special outreach and pre-vocational training for women. Their funding is much lower than other similar sub-contractors·, but it is a beginning. Weber County, with the highest percentage of women unemployed and one of the lowest service rates for women clients, apparently has no special programs. Some local planning officials have been heard to say that special programs for women are a "luxury," to be quickly forgotten in a time when CETA funds are being cut. There are, of course, some who argue that all the programs should have special components for women, rather than co_mpletely separate programs. Unfortunately, most programs have yet to demonstrate that they can reach the woman in the laundromat or food stamp line, and that they know how to help her when she says, "I couldn't get a job; I don't know how to do anything. " Women Clients. Thanks to a couple of years of considerable effort, most Utah programs are now serving women as about 42 percent of their clients, their same percentage in the ranks of the unemployed. Utah far surpasses the federal Title III programs in this regard. Unfortunately, these figures mask some continuing problems. For example, although the overall number of clients is .proportionate, women in on-the-job training and in public service employment jobs are many fewer than expected (only about a third in Salt Lake County). These are the very programs which provide immediate paychecks and a foot in the door for a good job. Many women also drop out of CETA programs, perhaps because their needs are not being met. Inadequate child care programs discourage many. Female Jobs. As in the rest of the country Utah women CETA clients are placed in jobs with lower salaries than men clients. Although figures were unavailable for Salt Lake and Ogden areas, women CETA clients placed in the rest of the state in 1978 earned $3.19 an hour, compared to $4.33 an hour for men. Although information is hard to come by, most officials agree that at least three out of four of women CETA clients are placed in traditional low-payingjobs. Salt Lake County CETA reports good progress in 1979, surpassing last year's service ·to women. In most programs service to women is up 10 percent. The funding of Phoenix Institute has undoubtedly contributed to this improvement, according to Alana Boysen of the CETA office. Boysen also believes Job Service has increased outreach programs and many agencies have worked harder on referral. Whatever the reason, progress is welcomed. You can do something in your own county to make sure women are served by CETA. You can contact local officials to get yourself or other women appointed to planning councils. You can review annual local CETA plans and reports, which are public record. If you are unemployed or underemployed, you can contact your local CETA office or Job Service to find out if they have training or jobs for you. You can even develop a proposal for a special program for women in your area. Anyone can attend planning council meetings. We know the facts. We have the millions. It is up to us to see that we also have the programs to meet our needs. Your mind and the way you use it is the single most important factor for creating your Success or your Failure your Relaxation or your Frustration your Hea!th or your Illness your Abundance ~r your Poverty Alpha Awareness Traz"n-ing is about understandz"ng your mz"nd & usz"ng 'it for Relaxation - Health Abundance - Success find out how exdtz"ng lzfe can be Brz"ng a friend INTRODUCTION SEMINARS April 13th & 21st 7:00 p.m. ALPHA AWARENESS TRAINING April 21st thru 26th 7:00 p.m. 3070 East 3300 South 266-8307 or 484-3881 HATHAYOGA WORKSHOP Iyengar Instructor April 26-29 Beginning to Advanced Call Toby Lafferty 272-2684 early morning or evening $10.00 per session. ROLFING• MIRAA JOANNE NEILL Certified Rolfer 1017 2nd Avenue Salt Lake City, Ut. 84103 [phone] network April 1979 PAGE8 EXTRA continued from page 1 she spends with son Jong Soo quality time: Extra' s Associate Producer, Twinkle "Before he came, everything was work. I Chisolm who is responsible for each knew I would love having a child, but I've week's finished show as a whole, and Teri discovered to my delight that I get as much Roni, a newcomer from KSL Radio who joy from him as from work.'' The cost of produces individual films, got together to the combined roles for Judy? An extra discuss their experiences with the local need to prioritize and organize are men- news magazine for network. tioned. '' And we don't go out much,'' she "I don't think that the sensitivity to admits. handle a story, even if the story is about With both a mother and a grandmother what we could call a women's issue, is who worked, Judy grew up assuming that male or female," Chisolm says, "but she would also, and when she discovered rather a question of experience.'' Roni fimmaking her senior year at Sarah Law- agrees, and adds, "Anyone, male or female, can research a story and find the rence, she knew what work she wanted. Her first project looked at housing in right questions to ask, though some people Harlem and resulted in a flattering job being interviewed may think they can reoffer with well-known documentary late better_to a man than a woman, or vice makers. Judy turned the job down when an versa.'' Roni came reluctantly and late to the established woman director advised her, '' Do your own films first; otherwise you' 11 women's movement after divorce left her always be at the bottom." With the Peace with three children the welfare line as she Corps in Tunisia, Judy taught English and struggled after an education while also also found time for two films. One project working as a barmaid. She is still leary of treated Berber villages. Another, co- making too much of the division between produced with her husband, also a Peace men and women on the job. "After all, Corps volunteer, was narrated in French working women have to work side by side and explored the work of a French anthro- with workin~ men. In television, labeling pologist. A later Ford Foundation grant enabled the pair to redo the film in English. Returning to Utah, Judy completed an M.F.A. in French, then a Fulbright grant took the couple to Kabul, Afghanistan, where she taught French at the American School. The two also produced a pair of films in this period: The Nomads of Badakhshan and The Painted Truck. Back in Utah again, Judy landed her first job at Channel 2's documentary division with a helping hand from another woman, producer Diane Orr, who had seen and admired a French-language teaching film Judy made as a Master's thesis. ''Can you leave tomorrow to go to Wounded Knee as my cimematographer?'' Diane asked, and in the crossfire from flare-guns, Judy filmed The Longest War and began carving her niche atKUTV. - something as a 'women's story' can be destructive. That can signal the male audience that it's time to tune out, to go get-a beer. You get better results if you sell the story, not the gender.'' Chisolm: "Something like daycare centers often get pigeonholed as women's problems, when actually they affect everyone in the community." l "Something like daycare centers often get pigeonholed as women's problems," Chisolm says, ''when actually they affect everyone in the community.'' Hallet: "Every week is a crash course in something new." ''Every week is a crash course in something new," says Judy. "What draws me to an individual subject, whether male or female, is the creative spark that makes a person unique. I focus on people who have something to show, something to say. After all, a boring woman is just as bad as a boring man. '' Favorite films done for Extra include A Special Dance, co-produced with Karl Idsvoog, about dance-therapist Ann Riordan, a look at a modem-day mountain man in Timberjack Joe, and interviews with a host of other fascinating people, from writer-historian Fawn Brodie, to artist Nancy Holt to Norma Matheson to Camilla Kimball. The common element they sh~e, says Judy: "They're open and _ honest and they show who they are." "Right," says Roni. "In that case, you have to make the whole community, not just the _women, see that little boys and girls are influenced in the long run by the centers, or the lack of them.'' Luck and help from friends helped Roni land her first job with KSL, which led to a spot on Public Pulse, and two years later, to a producership with KUTV's Extra. '' Sexism has never been the problem for me. I'm competing with myself, not the men. My position after being a housewifo for ten years and entering the job market with no experience wasn't much different from that of a young man starting out. I guess he'd be just as overwhelmed by high-powered executives and the authoritative 'Dad' types as any woman is. Anyway, I think there are more similarities than differences.'' ' 'I still think there are differences in the stereotypes and in what is expected of women,'' Chisolm argues. As an indus- Roni: "I'm competing with myself, not the men.'' trial photographer, Chisolm fought an uphill battle to be considered seriously by the photographic fraternity. ''They treated me like a model, not another photographer." Chisolm began at KUTY as a ''gofer'' and soon made her presence felt enough to be promtoed to Associate Producer. "I was never raised to be a housewife," she declares, mentioning that her mother was widowed early in life, and she speaks proudly of her sister, who is an attorney. '' Women are learning the fallacy of thinking they can live their lives depending totally on another person,:' states Roni, whose own mother is a CPA. ~'Maybe they're getting more like men, who always knew they'd have to fend for themselves. It's great if a woman wants to be a housewife, and chooses that, but she can only make a choice if she has other options. Too many women still see marriage as an out they can take from economic pressures.'' Roni: "You wonder why so many seemingly protective daddies ignore the statistics and send their daughters into the world without the tools they need to survive." Hallet and Roni on location at the John Singer farm in Morgan, Ut.ah. "But is it really an out?" Chisolm asks. "Look at the divorce rates." Roni, who attended school on a vocational rehabilitation grant, sums up the network April 1979 PAGE9 Interviewing Mrs. John Singer, Hallet's face is a study of intense concentration. Roni & Singer break into spontaneous laughter over shared humor. continued on page 16 PAGE 10 New ac!f - network April 1979 Ill I , "Ill ·women I I I I I . a~ women" we ha'le. -¼he ~re~tcst pGtcntia\ +o effec.t po;,ttt~e in oursel-es arid c,__ir ~ocre-rt- We. need to de'veloP new self. concept~ and new wa1s of relaii~ to each oiher and to men. chllhqe l:>e.~,n~ wheti we do• • t~~$ jotn u~ -for a workshop +o help e-ftect -these C~r)(JeS : _ Comrnu~fcahon_, ~€)(1Jalit1 US~Ble ~elf'·, de.fen~~ ~O<Jo.. aTul rt,ed1ta+1on. lhcilcles b. ve~eic\rian luncheon. Conduded b1 s~. k'rishna kavr kna!sa : C'oord;nator cf GC7M" a World wide women·$ or~nlutlion and black belt 1-<ara-te ,ns·\-rvctor 'I - fh: ~bt• 322 Welcome Wagon has the job you've been looking for. 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Beck. They met and voted to override the She is currently a division head and direc- Ambulance Association's decision and tor of Project Cooperation, a vocational moved to admit Mecham as a member of training program for disadvantaged youth. the association. Objections on the part of Olsen taught in the public school system some members included the slim, 5'3", for I 6 years. In 1973 she was hired as a 108 pound woman's physical abilities. Clerical Instructor for UTC' s Skills Center During the council meeting, Mayor Beck in Salt Lake City, where she later deve- noted that other members of the associaloped their adult work experience program tion were not questioned abol}t their physdesigned to provide clerical students with ical qualifications when they applied for on the job training in conjunction with membership, so such questions were their classroom training. A member of the · clearly discriminatory. Altrusa Club, an altruistic civic organizaRecently named branch manager of tion, Olsen is also working on a committee Trans-West REALTY WORLD's Murray to reorganize the college under its new office was Sandi Jo Carpenter, a former administration. real estate agent with their Midvale office. Two women have been admitted to the A native of Salt Lake, Carpenter is the American Fork Ambulance Association. current president of the Bonneville Junior Norma Mecham, an on-call nurse at the High School PISA. She is a member of American Fork Hospital and Dorothy the National Association of Realtors and Edwards, a student nurse at Utah Valley the Realtors National Marketing Institute. Hosprtal both applied for membership She graduated from LDS Business College when Mecham's application was initially and the Center for Real Estate Studies, rejected. She gained admittance after con- where she received her broker's license. siderable controversy and persistant legal Please send any information concerning women to be efforts. A graduate of the Emergency featured in New Landings to: Medical Technician training at Utah Tech- network nical College in Provo, she qualifies for c/o Marj Bradley the position under present Association by- 383 South 6th East laws. Daniel Marcum, Mecham's attor- Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 Carpenter ney, <;ited violations of the Equal Opportunity Act, the 14th Amendment to the constitution, and 1964 and 1971 Civil Trolley He_rbs.&Spice 223 Trolley Square 1 Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 i. 5~1-8293 -~------=---- Sales and Marketing Executives present their Second Annual Career Women's Seminar, April 26, 1979, Hotel Utah, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A comprehensive, in-depth seminar designed to assist the career woman. For information phone [phone]. Ask for Katie. $40.00, pre-registered; $45.00, at door. Includes luncheon. Sivananda Yoga Center Relax With Us Alt end A F.ree i.,.oaloo« MEOtr O#~ . . & Class '9<;. ~"'" 4-. . <- 0W At 555 E BOOS. .L.C. 328-1470 network April 1979 Pagel2 A Woman's Place ls On Top By Ted Wilson Last year was a good year for women in mountaineering. Polish Wanda • Rutkiewicz climbed Everest. A team of Brown University women conquered Devistan in India. My friend Irene Miller, as part of the first all-woman American ' expedition to try, climbed Annapurna. Irene and I first met around a Grand Teton's climber's campfire in 1959 when I was a college student spending my summers working and climbing in Jackson Hole. Her husband, Leigh Ortenburger, and I became friends and the three of us began climbing together. One day, as we climbed the north face of Symmetry Spire, Irene broke all my stereotypes about women mountaineers. Intrigued by a difflcult jam-crack leading up the rock, and vaguely aware that I was taking an unnecessary risk because there was a woman on the other end of my rope, I had gotten committed to a short climb that was over my head. Each move upward became more and more uncertain but there was no available retreat Finally my feet skidded away from my tenuous toeholds and, I felt the breathless surpise of a 15-foot free fall. At the other end of my rope, Irene caught the fall with a quiet, easy competence which bruised my ego more than my body. In thbse days women weren't supposed to catch leader falls with such style. Yet, considering the alternative, I had to be grateful for her ability. Impressed but not really convinced, I took the lead rope as we continued our ascent. Attacking a 50-foot overhanging crack with sheer muscle, I smuggly thought to myself that it was going to be especially tough for a woman and prepared myself to catch Irene's fall. Using flakes and tiny edge holds I had passed over, Irene avoided the muscle work and climbed the crack with a ballet-like grace which proved to me that finesse and brains, even on a mountain, are a person's most important assets. Later, as we sat on the summit, I beleved her when she said she would someday climb one of the big mountains. My confidence in Irene was challenged a.gain when she visited Kathy and me last August on her way to Nepal camps were painstakingly supplied with the food and equipment needed by those who would make the final assault. Each climber shared the burden. The final teams selected by expedition leader, Arlene Blum, to go to the top were chosen after the grueling approach had isolated those with the endurance to go on. The first summit team was comprised of Irene Miller, Vera Komarkova, Piro Kramar and the Sherpas Mingma and Chewang. The second team, due to leave the day after the first, was headed by Vera Watson and Allison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz. and the Himalaya mountains. She had They began the day with an enforced breakfast, "Food is not appealing at chosen to climb Annapurna! Known among mountaineers as a butcher peak 25,000 feet," Irene told me. The cold but fair weather required them to wear every because nine climbers have died on it, available article of clothiqg. "As we Annapurna is one of the most difficult climbs available. It seemed to me an odd began to leave," she continued, "Piro choice for this team of women who had noticed a hole in her glove and a finger never climbed an 8,000 meter peak turned white in the first stages of before. Yet, they were determined to do it frostbite." An eye surgeon, Piro made a and Irene Miller was one of the simple choice. She would not sacrifice organizing sparks behind the expedition. her finger for the summit Only Irene, Vera and the Sherpas, Mingma and Irene brings her own brand of Chewang would make the ascent. intelligence, creativity, and determination to mountaineering. She is "The climbing was routine at first," absolutely reliable on a climb. Her quiet said Irene. "I worked to establish a determination can best be measured by rhythm and pace - six deep breaths and a step; six deep breaths and a step. her response to the serious back Slowly we watched Camp V become a problems she has suffered in recent speck on the ice below us." Going years. After recovering from the major without oxygen in order to conserve their surgery of a disk fusion, Irene has not six-hour supply, deep snow and only gone on to climb Annapurna, but precarious footing cost the team much she has also completed a marathon in the respectably fast time of 3:33. Her role extra effort Finally after three and one half hours, they turned on their oxygen in the organizing of the Annapurna expedition. was typical of her bottles. Exhilarated but tensely personality. She was responsible for the conscious of the danger, they climbed, roped but unanchored, at four breaths critical but unglamourous task of per step, knowing "a slip by any one of purchasing, assembling and the four of us could kill us all." transporting all the equipment needed for the climb. An accomplished scientist As they approached the summit with a Ph.D. in physics and the mother of pyramid, the snow became even deeper. Mingma became discouraged and said, two daughters, Irene accepts her "Maybe no success." "We all knew," accomplishments without fanfare. She even has the typical parent's response to Irene said, "that the afternoon was slipping away and that_we couldn't risk her daughters' climbing, "It makes me spending the night high on the nervous," she told me with an ironic laugh. mountain." Silently they climbed on, knowing the gamble they were taking. The Annapurna expedition was 'Then," said Irene, "we passed a corner formed from America's best women mountaineers. With Arlene Blum, 31, as and there before us was the summit ridge. Our pace, with our spirits, picked leader, the climbers included Irene up." Climbing one small rise after Miller, 42; Vera Watson, 44; Joan Firey, 49; Pivo Kramar, 40; Margi Rusmore, 20; another the team finally gazed through Annie Whitehouse, 21; Vera Komarkova, what Irene described as "wind-blown plumes of snow casting rainbow-like 35; Liz Klobusicky, 33; and Allison refractions" to the distant northwest Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, 36. Also included were native Nepalese Sherpas, summit of Dhaulagiri and the graythe traditional support staff of all climbing green Tibetan plateau below. "The view confirmed our deep feeling expeditions. The only males on the and our expedition's motto," said Irene, expedition, the Sherpas added their "A woman's place is on top, and we climbing experience and load-carrying ability to the team. were!" The team returned to Camp Von The expedition was plagued with the October 16, missing the second assault most dangerous possible conditions team which left that same day. Vera from the day it began until the summit was reached on October 15, 1978. Slab Watson and Allison ChadwickOnyszkiewicz, climbing alone, were and powder avalanches thundered never seen again. Their bodies were throughout each day. The weather was discovered by a search party on October most often brutal and relentless. The 20th at the bottom of the ice field just available climbing routes presented a • maximum degree of technical difficulty. below the summit plateau. Deeply saddened by the deaths of her friends Having been asked by network to Irene spoke to me of how they had all write about the expedition, and curious accepted the possibility of dying. "We myself, I urged Irene to describe the chose the sport and the danger freely," events of the climb. She began by she said, though I could hear in her voice detailing the creation of the approach that the loss was no less deeply felt. camps. These five camps were Listening to Irene tell of the conquest established through the standard of Annapurna, I couldn't help recalling routine of sending out lead climbers to her certain grace on the Grand Teton chart a route and set fixed ropes many years before and I found myself anchored to the mountain. Later, other feeling unreservedly proud of the skill, climbers and the Sherpas followed the set route, using the ropes for security as courage and vitality that had put this group of American women on top of one they shouldered loads weighing up to ,fifty pounds each. In this way the higher of the world's greatest mountains. , PAGE 13 network April 1979 Finance Dodie Williams So You Want To Go Into Business Part Two: Alternative Financing Arrangements The old adage "It takes money to cessful, seeking instead a larger return, make money" is still quite accurate, al- and relations became strained. Another way friends or relatives can though there are exceptions. In attempting to start your own business, the bank help is to co-sign a bank loan, which expects you to invest some of your own makes them responsible for payments money in addition to what you are seek- you miss. The interest on the loan is tax ing to borrow. 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She also expresses concern that women may abandon their peopleand death. The list is endless. Author Nora Scott Kinzer maintains oriented style to conform to the busithat stress is part of living and is normal. ness-world-male-style of aggression She also points out that stress can pro and competitiveness. In so doing, duce abnormal reactions and can kill. As women may be doubling their Stress, a sociologist, she is interested in trying to she says. Kinzer suggests the management understand the relationship between of the future should be based on style illness, psychosomatic disease, stress, and general neurosis, particularly relat- the best masculine and feminine traits : ing to women. The subject is important, high task-orientation (male characteristhe treatment thorough. But as handled tic) combined with high "nurturance" here, stress does not warrant full book- (female characteristic) or supervisory "androgyny," as she terms it. According length treatment. Kinzer's interest in the subject was to her, this androgynous system will expanded when she became co-director diminish many stress factors. While the book contains a sizeable of "Project Athena," a project which citing the author's acbibliography tracked the effects of stress on the first women admitted to the U.S. Military quaintance with literature and research Academy at West Point in 1976. A chap- on stress - making her somewhat of an ter is devoted to the project. Other chap- expert on the subject - she does not fall Books and tea ters deal with stress and management, into the trap of suggesting pat solutions mental and physical health, marriage for complex problems. In fact her last Fri. 9 till M-S, 9:30-6 Hrs. 484-9100 SLC. East, 15th So. 1511 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.....,________, and children, drugs, alcohol and food. chapter, ''Stress and Coping," states her -: ....__ All emphasize that women are under position forthrightly. 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Angelyn Nelson received.an honorable mention for her February 26, 1978, Salt Lake Tribune feature on sterilization, delaing with the growing interest in sterilization as a means of contraception - the various kinds, their benefits and hazards. Many people ask her if she had difficulty getting her piece printed in Salt Lake. The answer is no. Nor was there negative response to it. She does report a number of men telling her they had been thinking about vasectomies, who, as a result of her article, planned to "go see about it." As Medical Editor for the Tribune, she handles most medical and health stories, as well as general assignments. She's worked five years at the Tribune, having earned her B.A. in journalism at the University of Utah and her M.A from the University of Illinois at Evanston. She helped with the spot news reporting of the Immanuel David family suicide for which the Tribune received a first place award. Elaine Jarvik, free lance contributor to Ut.ah Holiday and the Deseret News, received a first place award for her Utah Holiday feature on hyperactive children. Elaine left a Deseret News full-time job five years ago to have her first of two children. Their care now limits her writing time to a few weekly afternoons and some evenings. Elaine earned her B.A. in journalism in Syracuse, her M.A from Northwestern University. She has written for a Stanford, Connecticut newspaper and for the Houston Chronicle. network April 1979 News and Notes network . classified Services Homemaker Retirement Plan Susa Young Gates Birthday Party Rep. Paul Trible (R-Va.) has introduced a Homemaker Retirement Plan in this session of the 96th Congres~. The measure will allow homemakers with no earned income to open their own Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA). 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