Network, Aug 1982

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.

BULK.RATE ' n r VOL<IME FIVE, NUMBER FIVE/ AUGUST 1982 / ONE DOUAR <LS. POSTAGE PAID ® PERMITNO. 3008 SAil' LAKE crrY, OT.AH 349 SOUIH 600 EAST SAil' LAKE cm OT.AH ~102 2 NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 contents Family Planning Services for Men and Women The Phoenix Institute Sojourn Project, a community-based program for troubled young women, is recruiting supportive, flexible and non-judgmental adults to provide live-in residences for one young woman. The adult advocates' responsibilities include intensive evening and weekend supervision, support, role-modeling and. a residence. We are looking for people who are familiar with nontraditional alternatives for women, the specific problems of women, and community resources for youth. The Phoenix Sojourn staff will provide training, on-going support, and round-the-dock backup for crises which may arise. A monthly fee of $600 will be paid for room, board, and time spent with each young woman. For more information, please contact Nancy Gilpatrick, 532-5080 or 364-9628. Did you know that voluntary sterilization is the most popular method of contraception for couples over 30 who have completed their families? Planned Parenthood Association of Utah is a non-profit agency dedicated to providing comprehensive family planning services for all Utahns. Our medical services include voluntary sterilization for men and women . If we can be of service to you or you wish more information please contact: @ Planned Parenthood Association of Utah 70 South 900 East Suite 13 Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 801-322-5571 Clinics also located in: Holladay 272-4231 627-2110 Ogden 753-0724 Logan 637-1483 Price Phoenix Sojourn t FEAnJRES Anne E. Nicoll 7 HIGH ANXIETY OR HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND LEARN TO LOVE MADI Karen Dingman 8 AFl'ER SCHOOL CARE: A PREVIEW OF 1HE 1982-83 WOMEN'S INDEX AND RUOURCE GUIDE Kristie Gwynn 10 WOMEN PRINCIPAU: PROGRESS TO PARITY? Pattie Hart Molen 14 A FEW WORDS ABOUI' RAGE Karen Shepherd 20 SUSAN DEVllIU SPRINTS. TOWARD 1HE OLYMPICS COLUMNS ONLY WHEN I IAUGH Elouise Bell will return in September. Dodie Williams available at Salt Lake Clinic only. FINANCE Salary Deferrals: The IRS Tax Shelter Plan Wendy Foster-Lei,gh 17 ON1HEJOB Surviving a Professional Set-Back DEPAKrMENTS Karen Shepherd 3 EDITORIAL When the Second Income Counts Please note that visits to the clinic are by appointment only. Costs for services are based on a clienrs family size and income. Voluntary Steril ization service lS 12 WOMEN IN BUSINESS 16 CALENDAR Jeanne Shaw 18 NEW IANDINGS Tim Fredrickson 19 NEWS AND NOTES 19 CIASSIFIEDS ON 1HE COVERSusan DeVries. Photo by The World is· Changing ... Barbara Richards. ::: ::::: ------ .::::- -----=--- -~ letters--------- ARE YOU? Out of the Frying Pan -.....--.: -:::::~ .......... □ -.~-....... :· ·: ... _.. ·:'-: .... :... •.. :...... ... '• •.·...:. . :......::::·:·::•· ~{//t\-~-~-:: .·.. ,.,,:.:,:•:•.-: MOUNTAINWEST COMPUTER SCHOOLS PROFESSIONAL DATA PROCESSING TRAINING Day and Evening Classes Available Call 268-6102 . -- -----~-----~ .... - - _------- -- ___ ---____- --..... ---· ..-. ~ --- - -...._ ~ ___, who does the dirty work should be appreciated as the most wonderful on high. How else do we all get fed and have a good time! If I could organize the Marthas out there, think of the cranky kids and men. That would be the girlcott to end all girlcotts! Before we can make headway from this ERA Detour, we must reach the men's hearts through their stomachs. If there are any interested people out there to start my new club, Martha Matters, please contact Mary Jean Uebelgunne, 1335 Earl Dr., Ogden, Utah, 84404, Ph: 621-0218. It's hot in the kitchen, believe me! Dear Network, I was so happy to read "Trickle-down Equality" about the hunger strikers, and for the first time I saw in print the names of the other fasters beside Sonia Johnson. I was beside myself during their fast because in picketing the Ogden Temple I told a Channel 4 newsman that if any hunger striker died that I would climb the ,Brigham Young statue again with the most dangerous weapon known to man! He, wide-mouthed, asked, "What kind of weapon would you take up there?" I said with a serious face, "An iron-cast frying pan." Love, Mary Jean U. After all I have done for ERA, I am still without a "groupie." The groups I tried are beneficial to the cause, but not to me. I Molehills to Mountains Causes was dyed-in-the-wool Mormon and I take Horror mothering and homemaking as an art. I've Wait a minute! There is a difference thought about making up a new group call between jogging and breast augmentation. Martha Matters. The story in the Bible For starters one is making a healthy body about Mary and Martha being good healthier and the other is taking a pretty followers of Jesus, and Mary is depicted as the most wonderful because she sits on the big risk of making a healthy body unhealthy. I am frankly horrified by the doorstep and listens to Jesus while Martha figure of 72,000 breast augmentations a is inside preparing food. That story always , year - a figure considered "low" by a local -bothered me because I believe anyone NETWORK, AUGUST 198~ ~ network® editorial--When The Second lncomeCounts Network is written for the women who live and work in Utah and for the men who work with them. lo providing its readers with information about the changing world of work, its goal is to promote a dialogue which spawns new ideas, ideas which help people find professional and personal satisfaction. Network's stories are about the Utah community, its business, its beauty, its resources, its unique cultural mix of customs and ideas, its people and their work. PUBLISHER Network Publications EDITOR Karen Shepherd CONTRIBUI'ING EDITORS Elouise Bell, Claudia Dissel, Tim Fredrickson, Eloise McQuown, Marshall Ralph, Jeanne Shaw, Dodie Williams EDITORIAL BOARD Marj Bradley, Skip Branch, Cris Coffey, Betty Fife, Brenda Hancock, Marshall Ralph, Helen Robinson, Karen Shepherd, Lynne Van Dam ART DIRECTOR Cris Coffey IAYOUI'/ARTIST Deni Christian DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Merry Lycett ADVERTSING REPRESENTATIVES Mandy Canales, Gail Gutsche, Lisa Murry, Nancy Mitchell CIRCUIATION Dean Coffey, Jeanne Shaw INDEX Jeanne Shaw - Coordinator Karen Dingman • Research Pattie Kimbal - Research Network welcomes manuscripts ( including poetry and fiction), art, photographs and cartoons but assumes no responsibility for those that are unsolicited. 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According to the Utah Department of Employment Security, working women's wages have been responsible, already, for saving the state millions of dollars in unemployment compensation. Working women have made a valuable contribution to their family's flexibility and to the state's flexibility. Their productivity has given both their families and the state an extra measure of time when we need all the resources available to us. Shouldn't that contribution be rewarded by an equal wage? So little progress has been made in the area of paying equal wages for equal work that it is tempting to try to place responsibility. Since the issue is tremendously complex, such an analysis is difficult, and in other editorials I have talked about the various internal and external barriers between women and equitable paychecks. Since this is a political year and election day is close at hand, government's responsibility on this issue is now an appropriate topic. Our elected officials, faced with their own complicated considerations, can't solve the problem alone, nor can the change they cause happen quickly. They can and must, however, be active and vocal as they use the authority of government to enforce the laws of the land and distribute the wealth of America.. Despite much talk about belief in equity and fairness, at the moment and for Equal Rights Amendment but favored equal rights. Within the environment created by this attitude all efforts to enforce affirmative action programs have stopped. The chair of the powerful senate labor committe, Senator Orrin Hatch, who proudly pulled the plug on affirmative action, promised to put another, more effective, program in its place. No part of a plan has yet even been suggested. In addition, Title IX is in serious danger, and with it all the advances made by girls and women in the area of equal educational opportunity; the proposed Family Protection Act, another Hatch project, actually prohibits schoolbooks which picture women in non-traditional settings; and few, very few, women have been appointed to top administrative posts within the Reagan administration. In short, the environment created by this attitude, • the attitude of leaders who believe in equal rights but not in the Equal Rights Amendment, appears to be ineffective at best and, at worst, unhealthy for women. And, as the Utah experience with unemployment points out, it is also unhealthy for men and children because it keeps under lock and key half the resources the state needs if it is going to prosper. It seems to me that one believes in equal rights or one doesn't, that one initiates actions or not, that what these current leaders of ours do is far more important than what they say. What they have done is nothing. They are not people who believe in equal pay for equal work or miners must be retrained, auto workers some long moments before this, nothing must develop new skill , and steel producers must hit the streets looking for ftalilJ ftl!Pl,crted that-would increase even for equal rights without the Equal . Th are m.~..mlO Arneb Ri . Utah's largest employer, Kennecott Minerals Corporation, has announced it may consider a total shutdown of its Utah plant in Magna within the year if copper prices don't rise. If Utah loses this significant industrial anchor, the ramifications will eventually touch all of us. The 4,000 people who may find themselves without work now have to live through the next year wondering about their futures. Many of those 4,000 are men and women who are the sole supports of their families; some are men with working wives, or wives with working husbands. Suddenly the advantage of keeping a family income's eggs in two baskets is apparent. Unfortunately, those who will have to depend on a woman's salary will discover that most women's salaries are not what we have come to define as a living wage. If Kennecott closes, Utah will taste the bitter realities of deep recession to an extent new for us. Michigan and the Northwest have already experienced how it feels to live in an economy that has become topsy-turvy. And somehow this recession is different from those before. Seemingly invincible institutions are failing. For one hundred years, the copper, steel, and automobile industries have been the most reliable of employers. Even when they have temporarily faded, employees knew they could stick it out until those industries fired up again. This time there are ominous indications that some industries may never again be major producers and may never again need vast numbers of employees. That means that other industries that might use their skills. During that period many wives will become "breadwinners." Suddenly the families that people feared would be divided because mommy works might be saved by that very fact. Suddenly the fear that women might earn as much or more than men becomes an irrelevant luxury. To state the obvious, our world is tremendously insecure, and the economic survival of both families and individuals depends absolutely on how we train ourselves for work and on the wages we receive after that training from the industries and corporations that pay us. A woman may find herself alone and need the money. A man may find himself without a livelihood and need his wife's wage. Children may find themselves with only one working parent to pay for the groceries. A once middle class family may be on welfare. To restate the obvious. A system that, in Utah,pays only 55 cents to a woman for women's opportunities. Indeed, much has believe women are equal except ... And the happened to undermine our hopes for.the future. We are a country that has made, by defeating the ERA, the statement that women do not deserve equal protection under the law. We live under an administration in Washington that was elected on the platform that it opposed the list of exceptions is endless. Economic necessity will enforce change where theory, politics and a sense of fairness have failed. Unfortunately, more unfairness and suffering will, of necessity, occur before people will be motivated to demand change. - KAREN SHEPHERD Network readers are getting ahead. Join Them. For new subscribers only: A subscription offer at $7 ($S off the regular subscription price). Name ___________________________ Adclraa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - City/State/Zip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Telephone (daytime) _ _ _ __ Mychecki8 endoaecl _ _ _ _ _ Bmme _ _ _ __ salesman who wouldn't give his judgment of what the figures were because competition between medical suppliers is so intense! Where is the research on these women? Why isn't it being done? Are doctors afraid they will jeopardize the good market they have and lose business? Think what it would do to the doctor you mentioned that said breast implants were 70 percent of his business. Most of all I am appalled that so many women are willing, without question, to subject themselves to the possible risks of breast augmentation particularly at the hands of doctors who could care less what happens to them in the long run. name withheld by request Attention for the Wrong Reasons I have always had a theory that a girl with big breasts wouldn't go to college, get a job, do anything except get married and have kids, usually young and not always in that order. I watched well-endowed high school friends get special attention for the wrong reasons. It's a pity women still think big breasts will solve their problems and even worse that for some of them it does. I thought your story was sad and I wish more women had higher aspirations. Susan W Turpin Logan Send to: Network, M9 S 600 E, SLC, U1' 84102 (801) S~2-609S Stop by and see our selection of pastel cotton dhurries (rugs) FINE AFFORDABLES C.Hruska &Co. 582-5235 1460 Foothill Drive • 2nd level • Salt Lake City, Utah 8410i 4 NE'IWORK, AUGUST 1982 Mind Fbod Rita Mae Brown's Latest Exclusive Network Inteniew By Sharon Lee Swenson Two pajama clad teenage girls have barricaded themselves in a bedroom with girlish white furniture stacked against the door. As they huddle, exhausted, in the foreground of the movie screen, we see the driller killer through the diaphanous white curtains. He enters the window behind them. We see him silently draw closer and closer while the two shiver together unaware of his menacing approach. The audience -mostly teenage boys - yell directions and warnings at the oblivious girls. When they do become aware of the killer's presence, the two girls find their escape blocked by the very elements they hoped would protect them. Who are these people and why am I watching them? The answer is another question: why would two women - one a nationally known feminist - produce, direct and write a sleazy film about a mad killer who uses a two-foot power drill to dispatch his victims? 1be Slumber Party Massacre was produced and directed by Amy Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown. 1be Rita Mae Brown, probably best known for the autobiographical Ruby Fruit Jungle. Party is about a group of high school girls who plan a slumber party, excluding the recently arrived next door neighbor (Valerie) of the hostess (Trish). An escaped mass murderer "crashes" the party and after much drilling, only Valerie, her kid sister Courtney, Trish and the killer remain alive. The three sul.Viving girls go after him together. He finally dies when he hurls himself on Valerie's prone body and impales himself on her upright machete. A simple plot summary of Party is both difficult and misleading. The action is repetitive: the killer finds a victim, stalks him or her, and then drills him or her. He is efficient, resourceful, and indefatigable. Momentary comic "relief' is achieved after a pizza delivery boy is drilled through both eyes before he can be paid. His corpse is dragged inside and covered with a blanket. While the three girls wait for help, sitting back to back in a circle armed with shiny little paring knives, they check the body. "He's so cold." "But is this the pizza?" asks a buxom gjrl, attired in a sheer Frederick's of Hollywood babydoll nightgown. The rainbow is a symbol of peace and tranquility, a welcome sight after any storr:n ..... but have you ever heard a rainbow? Every hour, COLOR RADIO 95 FM plays continuous rainbows of music. Tune us in _and try one on, they also are a welcome sight after the storm of clutter you may be hearing elsewhere. Continuous Rainbows of Music consist of a rainbow variety of your favorite music, at least twenty minutes of music every time, uninterupted ... and you'll hear one every hour (except 6 am - 9 am). Opening the pizza and chewing, she says, "Well, life goes on after all. And food always makes me feel better." Similar notes of black humor differentiate Party from most other films of its genre. In the final climactic showdown, Valerie slices off six inches of the killer's clearly phallic drill. His disappointed whimper is the first norunechanical noise he's made. Earlier, while searching for a weapon in a basement workshop, Valerie grabs a power saw, whirs it, and charges up the stairs, only to pun out the plug and thus disarm herself. "/ added the power saw," says producer-dirctor Amy Jones in a telephone intel.View with Network from her home in Santa Monica. "It plays on the question we're all asking - where does he get the power for the drill?" I asked Jones why she had directed a film so violent, so exploitive of women's vulnerability, so menacing. "I did it because I needed a job," she said simply. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to be a film director? ... I could see the script was commercial. I had no particular interest in the horror film ... We shot it in 20 days for $250,000. That's the cheapest movie in 35 millimeter you're going to find." ( The average cost to make a Hollywood film today is $10-12 million. Reds cost $35-45 million. Personal Best cost $16 million. Heartland cost $700,000.) Jones saw Rita Mae Brown's original script at horror king Roger Corman's New World Films. (She had been editing films for several years. Party is her directorial debut.) On her own she filmed the first seven pages of the script, raising the rest of the money on that basis. Jones says she "rewrote a lot, but the very important basic structure and lots of dialogue was Brow.n's." Jones added the ending, the murder in the school, the killer's entrance through the window, the character of the man next door, the excluded neighbor girl, and the ending in the pool. She credits Brown with "the basic structure of the slumber party, the people next door, the school, and the good jokes, including the one about the pizza," and adds, "I've never met Rita Mae Brown. I understand she conceives of it as a feminist film. I do not. I'd love to believe that's true, but it's basically an exploitation picture. She had a message, the girls get together and kill the guy. I doubt she's even seen the movie. She did not feel it's an exploitive film." Brown has not seen the film, she confirms in a telephone intel.View. Why did you write a script like this, I question. "Roger Corman asked me. I especially wanted to do it because I've never done horror and timing is critical there, as important as it is in comedy. At 12 Midnight every night you'll hear the Ml DN IGHT HOUR RAINBOW, a SOLID hour of continuous uninterrupted music. Lots of people tape them (though we would never suggest that)! Tune in to "The Rainbow Connection" and you'll HEAR rainbows. You'll find them to be very colorful . .. that's part of why we're called COLOR RADIO 95 FM. NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 5 "I saw it as a spoof, a chance to really mock the whole thing, debunk the whole genre. The point was to explode it from the inside out and a horror film won't work unless it scares people. "It was a terrific opportunity to do something 180 degrees from myself. I hated it every day I wrote. I scared myself. I used to go into my roommate because I was so frightened and say, 'I can't do another page."' Asked what she'd say to people who felt scripting an exploitation film like 1be Slumber Party Massacre was a sell-out for a feminist, she responds, "Violence is absolutely real and the sooner we come to terms with it the better. I'm not a nonviolent person. This is a very violent society and I hate it. There are people in the streets with guns you cannot change with reason or with love. Until women realize they have to truly protect themselves, women will be victims. The real meaning of the film is you have to stick together. "I don't know if film can make social changes, but it can make people think. I'm going to write a lot of films I don't care about. I have so much confidence in myself I don't think I'll ever make a major ethical mistake. I know what I want to write when I'm SO and what I need to do to be able to write it. I don't expect people to like everything I do, but I'm an artist and I have to do what's best for me." But, I ask, don't feminists hope to create art that shows women discovering solutions outside the traditional male power mode? "Well, that's the rub. We have to create a new world while living in the old," says Brown. Jones also considers herself a feminist. "But I'm not interested terrifically in making political movies. Movies with a point of view are not my favorite films." She claims that 1be Slumber Party Massacre "doesn't have a sexist message" When asked if there were films she would not direct, Jones identified two types: "I wouldn't' direct a film like Death Wish, where whites shoot blacks anything racist. Or any film with a sexist message. This film plays on sexual fears and exploits them, but it doesn't have a sexist message." True, three women unite to destroy the male menace. But Jones's interpretation raises other questions. If it takes three women to stop one man, does that mean women are one-third as powerful as men? Is success defined by adopting "male" weapons and methods? And, on another level, what happens to a woman who succeeds by exploiting the fears of other women? Asked why anyone would want to see the film, Jones said, "People like to be scared: it's as simple as that." The target audience for Party is teenagers despite its "R" rating. Wouldn't the rating cut down that audience's access to it? Jones says, "That's kind of naive." Variety simply labels the film as a "better-than-average teen market entry." An informal poll of my friends who see slasher films with some regularity ( all male, incidentally) and my own admittedly limited experience with the genre suggests that teenage boys, generally in groups, are primary viewers. What kind of world do parents out to save money and because no one in the audience would care about them," Jones says. The one female adult in the film, the girls' coach, encounters the killer and is left bleeding while the fighting goes on outside. Does she die? Yes, says Jones, but the explicit proof of her death was sacrificed to earn an "R" rather than an "X" rating. "Rita wrote her death because a kid audience would prefer to feel the nice teacher tried to help but they'd rather believe they could do it themselves." Secondly, beneath the thrills and shocks, tl!e slasher genre ironically suggests that parents are right. The killer, a male adult with a vicious weapon, repeatedly invades territory the victims ( and audience) think of as "safe." A .filmmaker friend with eclectic viewing tastes confided to me, "I think the films really say, 'Everything your parents told you· is still true. If you'd followed your parents' advice this wouldn't have happened. Don't go out alone. Don't pick up hitchhikers. Don't trust strangers. Don't go into the woods. Don't leave the doors and windows unlocked. Don't have sex if you're not married."' Third, as Chicago film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel have pointed out on their PBS show, "Sneak Previews," this type of film typically punishes sexually liberated, independent women and frequently uses film techniques that lead the audience to identify with the killer rather than the victim. Neither of these elements are present in Party and, given the genre's convention, the violence depicted in Party is restrained and ungraphic. There are no lingering closeups of spilling guts or ballet-like slow motion blood spatters, though this may be more a function of budget than ethical considerations. But does the film create a potentially although it plays on sexual fears, primal they learn about from the screen? First, it is a world without adults. "At damaging experience for viewers? (and/or its creators?) "Have Horror Films Gone fears, male and female. Fear of rape, fear of one point they wanted me to take Trish's Too Far?", a recent New York Times story aggression". It's the stuff of nightmares, the worst fears you cannot repress." The corpse tally is six male, five female, with men suffering the more violent deaths. Most of the women are killed off-screen. I said that a male film reviewer told me he would not know a woman directed the film without the credits. "That's good," she responded. "I don't want anyone to know whether or not I'm a woman or a man. I don't want to be thought of as a 'woman director' for one quarter of a second." 363-2222 555 East 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah 1 by Elliot Stein, alludes specifically to such relatively high-class horror films as John (Halloween) Carpenter's 1be 1bing, Paul Schrader's Cat People and Stephen Spielberg's/Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist. The article gathered opinions from child analysts, psychologists, educators and some specialists in the field of horror, some as chilling in their implications as anything on screen. "Adolescents are perpetual seekers of thrills and can see any kind of film without harm," says Dr. Harvey R. Greenberg, a clinical professor of child psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Also a film critic, Greenberg says, "Small children can be traumatized and should be kept away from movies that can shake them up." But some psychologists believe that horror films hold nothing to equal the repulsiveness of events in real life. "For some of the kids I have seen, who have witnessed bloody murders not on the screen but in real life, or for 13-year-old girls facing the prospect of abortion - a horror film simply validates their daily lives," says Phyllis Ackman, a psychologist who treats adolescents. It is disturbingly true that even those who see such films choose not to discuss them. They are "just entertainment." 1be Slumber Party Massacre certainly has no explicit message about appropriate behavior and attitudes. But that does not mean the audience is unaffected. In fact, its influence may be more profound because it is not directly articulated. If the quality of our daily lives has reached a point that we must escape to horror like that of 1be Slumber Party Massacre for relief, or validation, or amusement, or success, we may wake to find we have hidden ourselves in a locked room with barriers that imprison rather than defend us. Sharon Lee Swenson is exhibition director at the Utab Media Center and coordinator of the Utab Humanities Resource Center. Summer/Alta Lodge Dining (Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner/ Sunday Brunch) ... Overnight ... Weddings -... Conferences & Group Dining Just register for any of the many Body & Soul class~s and receive a chance to WIN A WEEKEND FOR TWO IN PARK CITYI Call or drop by for details. "BODY MOTION AT ITS BEST!" • Aerobic Dance • Dance Exercise (For Adults & Children) • · Co-Ed Aerobics • Movement Classes (For the Elderly) • Professional Instructors (Graduates of U of U and BYU) • Limited Class Size • Free Parking • Fruit or Juice served after class ~Alta Lodge_ _ _ _ _3_22_-4_6_31 Located in the Wasatch National Forest THE BEST DANCE/EXERCISE STUDIO IN TOWN - - - - - -- -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , . - - ~ ~- ~ - - - ~- - - 6 NE'IWORK, AUGUST 1982 Someplace Special - NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 7 High Anxiety or How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Math By Anne Nicoll What is a social worker like me doing talking about mathematics? Aside from the fact that I have always loved math, it is an issue that is raised almost daily in the career counseling I do. "I have lots of interests," a woman returning to school typically says, "but whatever I study, I don't want to take math." She is a woman between 25 and 50 who most likely plans to work after she finishes school. Her determination to avoid math, ( some call it math anxiety) will inhibit, as much as any sexist law, role or tradition, her opportunity for a wide range of career choices. Ten years ago Lucy Sells' research on the mathematics preparation of entering freshmen and women at the University of California Berkeley ( a school which accepts only the top 12 percent of California high school graduates) showed that just 8 percent of the women came to college prepared with four years of high school math. Fifty-seven percent of men had had four years. Lack of math preparation eliminated, for them, more than half of the majors offered by the university. Mathematics acted as a "critical filter" for career opportunities. The statistics that reveal womt:n' panicf ation in a variety of occupations shows a pattern of high participation in fields - humanities, education, fine arts, social work requiring less math background and low participation in fields requiring a strong math background. The following figures begin to tell the story. The average yearly salary offered to a student with a 1980 bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering is $23,832 for men; $23,928 for women. What is the average offer to a student with a 1980 bachelor's degree in the humanities? $12,504 for women; $13,452 for men. What percentage of secretarial jobs are held by women? 99.3 percent. And we all know their salaries are low. What percentage of women are in the engineering force? 2. 7 percent. What percentage of employed doctors are women? 10. 7 percent. What percentage of employed electricians are women? 6 percent. Women are 98 percent of employed dental assistants; but only 4.6 . percent of practicing dentists. For the woman in my office, the lack of math skills is both a hindrance and a fear. To change she must confront and contradict the subtle messages she received about math early in life. These messages become almost social rules by junior high school. She may remember hearing that girls weren't good in math; ys er: be ter, r aring a s hoot INVE.S T IN YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE AT MSC'S ppla COMPUTER DA YCAMP Ill Learn Tomorrow's Necessary Skills Today Two Week Course 1including introduction to computers , introduction to programming , graphics. simulations. word processing . how to write games. educational uses and advanced programming . etc . counselor, teacher, parent or peer say she would not need math anyway. What if she had been good at math but had stopped taking it because it made her very different from the other girls her age? Besides, why would a girl who plans marriage and a family need math anyway? The husbands need it - wives don't. The adult woman returning to school may acknowledge that she was socialized out of math but by now she is likely to feel that it's too late. She wants to get through school as quickly as possible. Returning to school after years away causes anxiety; additional math courses only add hours and stress to an already difficult task. She doesn't want to hear that her choice eliminates career opportunities in fields like geology, business, and engineering ( fields that are begging for women), leaving them only low-paying fields already overpopulated with women. If she still chooses the latter, chances are that I may see her back in my office asking more questions about careers as she tries to figure out how to increase her opportunities. Some women make both choices. One woman already had an undergraduate degree but wanted an MBA. She went back and picked up two math courses and was amazed that she not only could do it but enjoy it as well. She was in a math course I was involved with as a teaching assistant. One day she had asked to talk to me and explained how discouraged she was. "I'm working too hard," she said. "And not getting anywhere." I asked her how much time she was spending studying for this particular course. She replied that she spent close to ten hours a week studying math, more than she had had to put in for any course. When I told her that ten study hours a week for this five hour course was about average, that it wasn't really an inordinate amount of time, her whole affl c an at itud ang . o t the stress of feeling she had to study twice as hard as anyone else to understand, she settled in and mastered the material. The last time I spoke with her she had been accepted in the master program and was well on her way. Even women who have taken math courses when they didn't have to have often experienced a sense of power when they've finished. They suddenly have a new self-confidence. It's an "if I can do math I can do anything" feeling. If I worked eight hours a day seven days a week for the rest of my life talking about the importance of figures in women's lives, I would only begin to make a dent in the number of women who narrow their career opportunities by avoiding math. That would be important work. But, it is also important for me now to focus my energy on younger women and girls. The social worker in me is not only interested in changing the individual but also the system that helps create all these crazy myths about women and math. I want to spend time in those junior and senior high schools talking with educators, parents and especially the young women to let them know that math can make a difference in their lives, that women need math skills, that math can be fun, and that girls can do math. I want girls to understand how math can be helpful in problem solving, in estimating and approximating, in measuring, in reading tables, charts or graphs. From recipes to corporate decision making, math has a useful place in girls' and women's lives. If parents understood just how helpful math skills could be to their daughters, whatever her life choices, they might encourage their children more to continue math classes in high school. Somehow people seem to believe that if a child or young adult isn't good in math they should avoid it. Do we tell kids to stop taking English if they have trouble writing or spelling? No! We know they will need it, so we encourage them to keep trying. Why don't we understand that any grade in math is better than no math at all? How can parents help? They could start early giving their daughters the same kind of toys they give their sons, models, things to take apart and build, puzzles - things that encourage them to explore. They could provide daughters written materials, books, magazines, newspaper articles, that show women working in all fields. Introduce them to women in nontraditional fields; take them on field trips to different industries, plants, museums, planetariums. They could become aware of workshops or classes in the community and involve their daughters in them. They could see that their teachers are providing them with the necessary opportunities and encouragement. Are there career days in her school? Do they include women in non-traditional fields? Do her books provide role models and problems and issues r evant to er e? These are questions that, when asked, will begin to change a girl's expectations about her future, and that change is the first step into making math a functioning part of her life. Anne E. Nicoll is a founding member of the Utah/Math Sdence Network and a counselor/programmer at the University of Utah's Women's Resource Center. 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Private Day Care Facilities Crown Acres Which Offer Before and After School Care Devlin's Child Development Cefkter 4716 South 200 West, Murray .................. 266-3762 Fantasy Land Nursery School The Adventurers 704 E. 9th So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328-4171 Fun Time Child Care Center 1248 So. 3rd E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467-9988 Hillsdale Nursery School 2966 W Lehi Dr., W Valley City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968-2691 Holiday Kindergarten & Nursery School, Inc. 5103 Highland Dr. ............................ 277-2302 Horizon Preschool & Child Care 1817 W 900 So., W Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566-4872 Salley E. Jensen Playhouse Nmsery 186 E. Whitlock .............................. 487-9441 Kid Power Day Care & Preschool 8627 So. Redwood, Wjordan .................. 561-0221 Kiddie Kollege 44 East Center, Midvale . . . . . . . . . . 566-3 772 Little Red School House 1400/ndianaAve............................. 359-4184 2505 Parleys Way ............................ 466-1881 Allen's Pre School & Day Care 4694 So. 200 W . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . . 262-4382 Bright Way Children Center 1235 Glendale Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973- 7483 castle Pre School & Day Care 700 North 200 West. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363-2923 Check-A-Child (6801 So. State, Midvale ....................... 561-7001 Child Care Center 5450 Wiley Post Way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364-6099 - 5695 Highland Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277-0607 Country Day School 7985 So. 700 E., S<mdy ........................ 255- 7065 1275 Browning Ave. .......................... 466-3149 Main Street Day Care Center 9310 So. State. . . . . . . . ...................... 561-0483 2156 So. 1000 E. .............................. 486-3545 1820So. 4080 W ............................. 973-2341 A Merry-Go Round Cottonwood Country Day School Love's Nursery 5000 Pi.eper Bl., Kearns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968-4803 1601 So. Main ................................ 467-2255 Peter Pan Day Care Center 1022 E. 3900 So............................... 262-1580 Pied Piper Preschool Nursery 1650 E. 3300 So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486-1417 Redwood Preschool & Day Care 4995 S. Redwood Rd., Taylo-rsville .. ............. 268-1142 Rocky Mountain Children's Center 4615 Highland Dr............................. 278-4813 Shady Acre Children's School 9641 S. 700 E., Sandy ......................... 57 I-5049 Small Wonder Preschool 1310So. 1700E. .............................. 582-5955 Small World Preschool & Day Care Centers 4130 So. 3600 W, W Valley City ................ 969-1553 653 Simpson Ave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486-0965 Southgate Day Care Center 3869S0. State ................................ 266-1544 Summerset Preschool & Day Care Center 460 E. 1000 N, No. Salt Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298-3266 Sunny Day Preschool & Day Care --------- ---- 7351 So. ]300E., Midvale., .................... 561-7295 - The Tender Touch 6990 So. 1300 W, Wjordan ................... 561-3531 Young World Day care Cencer 21.5 So. .300 E., Bountiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295-257 J G Jrtral Cit~ . ~,,: ;:· · Multi-Purp0$6 Genter l ...................................................... =.............• --·· :• ~": I· I I I Still avairable at pre-publication price, THE 1982 WOMEN'S INDEX AND RESOURCE GUIDE includes more names this year. PLUS, there will be comprehensive listings of child care facilities, health care resources, networks, and organizations. . . . . . . . . . .1 .. = ·••• '-i: 0.11 Q1 •~ · 'i nh·'d C ~- ~~-r--.;~ .. -·-~. 'J JI ................................. at'Q ,~-*...~ ................................. 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Heart of the City. -t&af~ encl0$d playground- *&ymna~iLlm for indoor p,ay. ...........outside. ..................................... ............................. " NnwORK, AUGUST 1982 9 This is just a small portion of what The INDEX will offer this year. In addition, a comprehensive guide to women's health care resources, organizations and networks, childcare facilities, workshops & women's businesses will be included. Watch.for the publication of the INDEX in October. {See order form below.) Publicly Operated Centers: funding assistance when parents are eligible. Advertising is done by word of mouth. There is a waiting list for child care at this center. Central City Multi-Purpose Center, 615 So. 300 E., 535-7137 This center is licensed to provide care for 59 children, ages 3-12. Hours at the center are 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. A nutritional snack is served. There is one teacher and one aide to every 13-15 children, plus occasional volunteers. The curriculum includes recreational, social, and educational activities. The center is open most holidays. Fees for after-school care are $1.15 per hour. There is some Title XX money if the parent qualifies, and the center will work with DFS/CYF and working mothers, students, and others who qualify for state assistance. Transportation is provided from approximately eight elementary schools in the Salt Lake City School District. Glendale Intermediate School, 1430 Andrew Avenue, 972-4 517 An after-school care program was initiated at this center this winter. Unfortunately, due to insufficient publicity, no children enrolled. The program will be offered again in the fall with, it is hoped, better results. through Title XX, The United Way, and independent fund raising efforts. Advertising is by word of mouth. Neighborhood House, 1050 W 500 So., 363-4584 The Neighborhood House provides an after-school program for about l 00 children in grades kindergarten through sixth. Most of the children are third grade and under. If parents want their children in this facility, they can enroll them in Franklin Elementary School whether or not they live within the Franklin School boundaries. There is also a pick-up and delivery of children from five other west side elementary schools in the Salt Lake City School District. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a S1.00 charge for each ten minutes parents are late in picking up their children. A snack is provided; the curriculum includes outdoor athletics, library work, swimming, and arts and crafts. The after-school care fee is S42.00 per month. There are presently several openings in this program. Advertising is by word of mouth, newspaper advertising, and public service announcements. Coppeniew Community Center, 8446 Harrison, Midvale, 535-5034 This licensed center serves 22 children in grades 1-4, plus 21 kindergarteners. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Bus service is provided both before and after school to and from five elementary schools in the Midvale/Sandy Oordan District) area. The center serves a nutritional snack. Two adults supervise each of the two age groups. Curriculum for the kindergarteners is mostly arts and crafts. The after-school curriculum is mostly recreational. The fee is S1.15 per hour for after-school care. Full Jackson Boys and Girls Club, 750 W 2nd No., 532-1489 This, club operates as a "drop in and go as you please" center and has between 75 and 100 children a day coming and going. There is no after-school transportation service nor is there any monitoring of attendance. The center is licensed by the Boys and Girls Club of America, a private agency. It is located on the upper floor of Jackson Elementary School. A new center is being built on 6th West and 3rd North to be ready for occupancy by next fall. Currently hours are 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday and noon to 7:00 p.m. on Fridays. The club is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on holidays. Children's ages range from 5 to 17 years and the older children use the facility in the evenings. Snacks are served on Fridays and free lunches are served in the summer for approximately 65 children. There are two staff members on duty at all times, plus an arts and crafts teacher on Thursday night and Friday afternoon. The staff ratio is l to 8 on field trips for which Sixty pre-school children and 20 kindergarten children are served from this center before and after school. This is a state licensed center which is open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. There is an a.m. and p.m. snack served in addition to a hot lunch. No before or after-school care is provided at this time, day care is $7.05 per day or $145.00 monthly. Copperview works occasionally with state agencies for transportation is provided. 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CLOSED SUNDAY H QY~~ OF SALT LAKE, INC. 925 First Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 801-359-8617 child's play" PROFESSIONAL CHIID CARE SINCE 1954 Ms. Jean Sunderland-Directress Diploma of National Society of Children's Nurseries, London, England ... t'.: • W • p • • • .! • • •• C - OPEN 6:30 A.M TO 6:30 P.M MONDAY-FRIDAY ·, ----""'-"'1 By Kristie Guynn When Johnny came marching home have gotten administrative positions. A from the Civil War and re-entered the ground breaker among these women is Dr. schoolroom, he found a woman presiding Mary Jean Johnson, principal of Granger at the blackboard. The five years of the High and the only woman leading a Utah Civil War drained the northern and high school. Johnson followed what is a western states of men at the same time typical path to school leadership: from that the public school system of the nation teacher to counselor to assistant principal was in a crucial formative period. Ever at Granite High School until she took the since then, education has been a female reins at Granger in July of 1980. John Reed profession. However, the administration Call, superintendant of Granite School of education - the supervision, direction, District, comments on her appointment, and especially the hiring of teachers - has "Our philosophy is that we don't choose always been the province of men. Except administrators solely because they are in times of war, women have been told to women - we want the very best people stay in the classroom to which their we can find. Mary Jean Johnson was "superior moral instincts and softer chosen because of her impressive natures" suited them. According to academic record, her history of competent tradition, the rough and tumble of district service, and an ability to respond to politics, decision making, and discipline problems that was reflected in her were best left to men. interviews." All this was supposed to have changed Other women administrators, such as with the universal enactment of federal Elva Barnes, assistant principal at Bountiful and state laws that followed the Civil Junior High School, have followed a less Rights Act of 1964 and prohibited traditional route to administration. After a discrimination on the basis of sex in the few years of teaching home economics in hiring of educational personnel. However, the mid-fifties, Barnes decided to become years after the passage of such equal an admini trator and entered an M.A. program in education. At the same time, employment regulations and years after specific efforts to increase the proportion scores of men with degrees paid for by the of women in leadership positions, GI Bill were flooding education programs educational administration is still across the country and Barnes became discouraged. "The general feeling then was overwhelmingly a male province. In 1980, that women should stay home and have a survey of 48 school districts in six states found that, despite advances, a full 75 babies. We just accepted that as the way percent of administrators were male. things were," she says. So Barnes left her Further, those women who do hold profession to raise a family, but she positions are earning, on average, 30 maintained her professional and percent less than the average male intellectual proficiency by_ becoming very administrator, according to U.S. Bureau of active in voluntary community service. Labor figures. What is more, other reports After several years she achieved influence indicate an actual decline in the proportion and became something of a celebrity in Utah's consumer movement in the '60s. of women in certain top-level positions. Then she reached a rather sudden turning Progress to parity, then, has been slow point. and uncertain all across the country, but nowhere has it been slower and more "I was speaking to a group of credit uncertain than in Utah. In a recentlyofficials - mostly men -about consumer completed national study, Utah showed the credit issues," she says. "During the lowest percentage of female question-and-answer period, a young man administrators - less than IO percent - of 10 or 15 years my junior stood up and all reporting states. That raw statistic looks asked, 'By whom are you employed?' I told even more dismal when figures on line him I was an unpaid volunteer and he was astonished. He said, 'A woman as positions - superintendent or principal which involve actual leadership and intelligent as you could easily be making decision making are broken out. In Utah's $15,000 a year.'- in those days that was 40 school districts, not a single woman still a lot of money - and it really hit me. - I'd been working myself to death all those acts as a superintendant or assistant years and had never even expected to be superintendant. In Utah's 160 secondary paid. I decided then to put myself in a schools there are only two women principals. In its 380 elementary schools, position where I could earn the $15,000 there are only 30 women principals. And he said I was worth." She then returned to the majority of those are concentrated in a teaching and began the slow process of few urban districts, with the result that preparing and competing for leadership. Belying what the statistics might seem Utah schools are still largely staffed by ·women but run by men. to indicate, the women administrators interviewed say they didn't face overt No group is more familiar with the problems facing women who aspire to lead prejudice because of their sex from those than those who have beaten the odds and who made hiring decisions. Almost all Elva Barnes: Men worry women will work for le.ss. "They see it as a threat." reported that they made their bids for positions in a general atmosphere of fairness and encouragement. On the other hand, some perceived that women have difficulty breaking into their first administrative jobs and thus into the arena where their talents can be measured against those of their male competitors. "The jobs have to come open," says Barnes, "and a woman has as good a chance at them as anyone. But you have to be in a position to show you can handle it, a_nd that is the difficult part.'' Obviously, the women who now hold positions have been able to prove themselves, but most of them testify that this "show me" attitude of their colleagues has been among their greatest obstacles. They face it, at least to some degree, at hiring time. "No favors are granted women," says Barnes. "In fact if anything, women have to show more skill than men to be given consideration." Perhaps an even more pervasive problem is skepticism from those people a woman is to lead after she gets the job. A woman administrator generally faces a more difficult transition into her position than does a man, and she has to prove that her appointment was not a mistake. "When Mary Jean Johnson started at Granger," says Riley O'Neil, her immediate superior in the Granite District office, "there were some people who thought that a woman was not ready for that responsibility or that she was placed in the position because of her sex and not her abilities." Likewise, Denny Kastelic, now a principal at Mountview Elementary School, reports that when she first began her Utah has only one woman who is principal of a secondary school, three others are assistant principals. Getting to the top is a test of both patience and skill. former job as assistant principal at Brighton High School people had reservations. "They wondered whether a woman could wear a crowd control jacket, monitor the parking lot, and deal with serious discipline problems such as fights," she says. Most women feel that they were able to allay these initial fears quickly and to function effectively as leaders. For example, Linda Sandstrom, assistant principal at Bingham High School, has found that "those male teachers who expected me not to be able to deal with the more severe disciplinary problems are now coming to me for help with discipline." Others report similar success and their performance records back them up. "Granger High School under Mary Jean Johnson is a better-tuned machine than it was before," says her boss Riley O'Neill. "She has made changes in discipline to institute better, more responsible monitoring of attendance and academic progress. As a result kids are scoring higher on their SATs ( Scholastic Achievement Tests). With all their differences in age, experience, and goals, Utah's pioneering women educational administrators have many things in common. They are competent and well-trained. They are confident, believe in their abilities and are motivated to take on the heavy risks and responsibilities of administration. They are determined to be fairly compensated for their abilities. Furthermore, they are in agreement that the lack of three things training, motivation, and economic aggressiveness - among the female teaching population is largely responsible for Utah's poor percentage of women administrators. Of these three, the major barrier is that Utah women tend not to train and prepare for administrative posts - they lack NE'IWORK, AUGUST 1,s2 11 readiness. Before a teacher can even apply for an administrative position, he/she must have some specific advanced degrees and endorsements to his/her state teaching certificate. In 1980, while 165 of 3,925 male secondary school teachers held such certification, only 9 of 2, 164 females did. The disparity for elementary teachers is even greater- 135 of 1,550 men certified for administrative work as opposed to 30 of 5, 1O1 women. The result of this great difference is that eight times more men than women are qualified to apply for any given administrative job. Why don't women certify? The disheartening conclusion appears to be that they simply don't want to. For a host of reasons, they lack motivation to participate in the rivalry for the highest berths in their profession. A primary reason may be that they don't want to take the risk that a degree, which costs a great deal of time and money, would never be used. Part of this timidity may be based on their expectation that the jobs would be withheld from them in any case. A study done in 1976 indicated that ,58 percent of Utah's women teachers thought that sex discrimination would affect their opportunities in administration. That perception still lingers. "Many women feel that it would be harder for them than for a man," says Judy Carlson, the newly-appointed principal of Crestview Elementary School. "There is still the feeling that men control and that scares a lot of women away." The only remedy for this fear is more visible proof that promotion for women is possible. A graphic illustration of the principle that nothing works like seeing others succeed is Granite School District, which leads the state in its number of h_ighly-placed women administrators. Achieved over a number of years, the slow but steady acceleration of women administrators in Granite has planted the idea that women do have the opportunity for promotion. But no amount of success for women can remove the risk from a bid for leadership. Turnover is sluggish, competition is intense, and there are no guarantees for anyone. More women might be willing to run the risks of nonplacement inherent in the system were it not also the case that the responsibility of most administrative positions is awesome. Being a principal is an immensely demanding, complex, and time-consuming job. It requires a tolerance for high visibility and a willingness to commit fully to the job. Not all women desire the stress...You have to have guts to go into a line position," says Elva Barnes. "Men learn about direct line authority from sports, from the military. We're outside the system so much that we don't get trained for it and it frightens a lot of women awav." An increasing number of women whose ambitions are not being fulfilled by teaching but who don't want to the pressure of line leadership go into staff roles. They are the subject matter specialists or the federal program administrators in district central offices. But for the most part, even women who are tempted prefer to stay in the Denny Kastelic: A principal's hours are from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Linda Sandstrom: Catching leisure time with her family means getting together at her school classroom. "There are more rewards in the classroom," speculates Linda Sandstrom, even though she herself has left it. "Every day you get the chance to help the student say 'Aha!' and that's a great feeling. You take more flak as an administrator and know all the problems, but then again you are there where you can make a real difference by helping to formulate policy," The responsibility and control implicit in a policy-making position is also unrewarding to the woman who still needs cultural acceptance as a traditional woman. Teachers can feel that they are safe within this state's conservative, family-centered cultural expectations of women. According to standard Utah values, the job of teaching is acceptable for a woman with a family, while the career of administration is not. "Since I have been in administration," reports vice-principal Sandstrom, "I have been more conspicuous as a working mother and thus open to more criticism." Beyond ideology, there is the practical reality that being a principal requires a devotion not possible for a woman who also sees herself as the chief caretaker of her family. Denny Kastelic feels that since most women teachers have families, they may be unwilling or unable to invest the time and energy that an administrative position demands. "They can handle teaching because they work the same hours that their own kids are in school. But a principal's hours are often from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. And it's just plain hard work and very energy consuming," she says. Many women who do go into administration wait, as Elva Barnes did, until their children are olqer. Entering the system later, they then have less chance to rise to the higher positions. Those who don't wait have especially supportive husbands, quite often educators themselves, and have made a joint decision that their entire family's life will be schoolcentered. Linda Sandstrom, ,for instance, has four young children and a husband who is a teacher. "We spend our leisure time together at my school. The family comes with me to activities I have to attend in the evenings," she says. "I have always had the full approval of my husband, which a lot of women wouldn't have." Still, for many women leaders, these questions of motivation are academic. They have been willing to take on the risks and shoulder the responsibilities because they needed or demanded the higher salary of an administrator. The question for them is survival. One woman is single; one is a widow; one's husband has multiple sclerosis; one's husband works irregularly. These women want to work where the pay is best. In the final analysis, women may lack the economic determination they need to pull ahead. Today most women teachers are supplementary breadwinners and though inflation pinches they have no pressing economic need to embrace the commitment required of administrators. "So many women are content just to make a little extra money for the family and not get involved in decision making," says Crestview Elementary Principal Carlson. Male resistance to women seeking leadership roles is partly economic as well. Men have historically been frustrated with the willingness of women teachers to work for less, because it erodes the bargaining position of all teachers. There may well be some resistance to women entering administration in large numbers for the same reasons. "Men's concern with women going into administration - and I think it is a legitimate one - is that women will work for less. They see it as a threat," says Elva Barnes. On the other hand, it may be this very willingness to work for less that will propel women into administration in greater numbers. In the 1930s and 1940s, before the post-war boom and the organization of teachers which combined to raise educators' salaries, women were fuirly well represented in leadership. Now that educational salaries are lagging behind again, significant numbers of men are CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 12 NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 Rebecca A. Hacl~er D.C. 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A friend and I had organized a school newspaper, and we had reporters in every grade, even kindergarten, so to keep things running smoothly it was often necessary for one of us to cut class. On one occasion, I asked permission to see what the fourth-graders were up to and then check on hot news flashes from the cafeteria on the way back. The teacher said fine, as long as I had finished my math assignment. You guessed it, I hadn't finished my arithmetic, but I was bored and restless ( not to mention lazy and completely awful at anything having to do with numbers). So I lied, leered at the math notebook that I shoved in my desk, and left. There was another little girl in my sixth grade class who figures in this story. With Conradian appropriateness, her name was also Patty, and her desk was a few feet away from mine. Being nobody's fool, even at twelve, she was certain that the Tweedledum to her Tweedled€e had no way finished twenty-five long division ,problems in such a short time, particularly since she knew for a fact that I'd only She sidled over to my desk, lifted the lid, flipped through the virgin pages of o o uni satisfied, and then promptly squealed. memorized my times tables that year ( and even then only haphazardly, and what's more, only through the eights). So she sidled over to my desk, lifted the lid, flipped through the virgin pages of my notebook until satisfied, and then promptly squealed. When I returned, I was greeted by my teacher, who took a lavender-scented hankie out of her sleeve and gestured with it while she let me know she was not so much angry as hurt by my abuse of her good nature. Her method of dealing with anger was to call it hurt. It didn't take me long to pinpoint the snitch. "What were you doing in my desk?" I demanded. After all, I was humiliated, cornered and, by the way, angry. "I couldn't get number twelve, so I was just checking to see what you got." There was a certain defensiveness in her voice; surely she knew how ludicrous it sounded, coming to me for confirmation in math. That made about as much sense as going to one of Ervil LeBaron's wives for a copy of 1be Female Eunuch. Her answer so enraged me that I did something that was certainly inexcusable for a twelve-year-old. You might think that in my dream version I pushed her and then she pushed me and that we ended up rolling around on the A Few : Words About Rage. On the whole, I think anger is an underrated emotion. It's not the destructive leech that envy is, and it's not as useless a guilt. floor kicking and biting and pulling hair. It might have shaped up that way, but it didn't. Nor did I lie in wait for her with my gang on the way home from school and beat her senseless. For one thing, I had no gang, and for another, she rode the bus. What I did in the end in the dream was just what I did in that glass-walled room at Wasatch Elementary School fourteen years -earlier. I waited till she sat down in her desk again. Then, as fury bubbled up in me, and reasoning that my pecadilloes were the result of a bohemian nature while hers marked a clear-cut meanness of spirit, I walked up behind her, tapped her on the shoulder, and when she turned around, I He had a point, but on the whole, the explanation was off-center. Deep down I knew that my concern didn't have to do with the fact that pre-pubescent boys could get away with expressing anger in a childish way and I couldn't. It had more to do with a recurring despair about how poorly most of us, both male and female, seem to handle our rage. When I examined the story of Patty X, it came to me that it wasn't just the way I expressed the anger that made me mad at myself. I still felt guilty for having had the anger in the first place. I was in the wrong, so it wasn't my place to get mad, went the conscience's line of reasoning. Only my emotions just weren't buying it. When you come right let her have it with a short and sloppily executed slap in the chops. All hell broke down to it, a certain amount of anger was probably in order. loose. The dream ended, and I woke up in a horridly unoriginal cold sweat. It would be a gross exaggeration to say that as a result of this single, isolated incident, I became a social pariah through grade twelve. Actually by the end of my schooling, I could count as my friends many of the more interesting people who also hung out by force at Provo High. But the incident was never quite forgotten either. As recently as 1975 a friend from Provo said suddenly to me in the middle of a string of reminiscences, "Do you remember that time in grade school when you hit Patty X in the face?'' Certainly/ haven't forgotten about it either, not if it's still disturbing my sleep three diploma" later. Maybe if I could have felt that it was all right to be angry, I might not have failed so miserably at channeling the anger. Maybe ( and I know this is a shaky example) I could have used it as a prod to becoming a sixth-grade math whiz. As it was, consumed by guilt ( and the aforementioned laziness), I blocked out numbers to an even greater degree after this incident. It took my own checkbook and a job that involves using a calculator to get me to face up to them like a big person. I could also have used the anger as starch in a resolve to be henceforth and forever scrupulously truthful. I guess I don't need to tell you that resolve was written in playground dust. Lots of times I can't even figure out what the truth is, let alone attempt to recreate it. Yet what remains long after the morning sun burns off my recurring dream is a need to recognize anger in myself when it shows up, and not compound the problem by telling myself I shouldn't feel it. If I could accomplish this, I think I might be a long way on the road to eliminating futile, furious outbursts. Still, to know this intellectually doesn't alter the fact that there are situations where I still find facing anger deathly threatening. Since reaching puberty, are there any lengths I haven't gone to to avoid confronting anger in an intimate relationship with a man ( and thereby, I must have felt, driving him away)? These days I make faltering attempts, based on the memory that when I shut my eyes to anger before, it didn't go away. It just came out indirectly, often in manifestations more bizarre than early Luis Bunuel movies. "I was angry with my friend;" wrote William Blake in "A Poison Tree." "I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow." Anger is a daily fact of the human condition. To get beyond its reach is to be "I walked up behind her, tapped her on the shoulder, and when she turned around, I let her have it with a short and sloppily executed slap in the chops." But why? A male friend to whom I told the story suggested that more than still being embarrassed about it, I am still angry. "After all," he said, "I got in a bunch of fights as a kid, but as long as I assure everybody that I don't do it now, people sort of regard it as a cute, normal, male way to have been as a kid. But if you tell that story of yours a lot, people'll think you're wierder than a stick Women aren't supposed to get angry, you know. You're still haunted by women like your teacher, who only let anger out in that manipulative hoo-ha, that I'm-so-disappointed-in-you song and dance." emotionally dead. That is not my goal. What I would like to be able to do is learn how to defuse it when it's not useful, how to discuss it when it might be helpful, and how to use it when it's necessary. Because on the whole, I think anger is an underrated emotion. It's not the destructive leech that envy is, and it's not as useless as guilt. It has its place. We would miss it if we could thoroughly suppress it and live our lives "never angry, just disappointed." I am not going to suggest ways to de-fuse anger, to handle it. Oh, I have- learned a few tricks that work for me, but others have more expertise in this area. What I do want to suggest is that we desperately need to recognize our anger and keep in touch with it so that it's strong and straight when we need it for life's real outrages: bigotry, cruelty, waste, oppression. "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas wrote to his father, who was near death. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." That dark place where giving and receiving love is no longer possible is to be fought with all the energy we possess, the poet tells us. When the hope for love is threatened, rage is the appropriate response. Yet how hard it is to recognize that when we continually swallow anger against a lover or friend, the capacity to continue to love that person may be in mortal jeopardy! We do not preserve love by stifling anger with silence!. Even though letting anger out may be terrifying, I propose that is a condition of Jiving and loving that we learn to do so. That painted Madonna who never gets angry, the one whom many of us still hold up for ourselves as the way we should be, was never real. I would like to suggest that We do not preserve love by stifling anger with silence. the real test of loving like a flesh-and-blood Madonna is not whether we feel angry, but whether we try the very best way we know how to express that anger to husband, friend or child without withdrawing love. Express anger with love! It's so easy to say, and so excruciatingly difficult to do. The deepest love may arouse the deepest anger. But the prize is tremendous in scope: life with our best friends as neither oppressor nor oppressed. Those are the friendships worth protecting, and that is what makes up a way of life worth protecting, even if we sometimes have to use rage to do it. Pattie Hart Molen is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Network who is currently teaching school in Mexico. NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 lS Salary Deferrals: The IRS Tax Shelter Plan I suppose that to say one can save now and still be able to save later sounds like so much "blue sky," but there is a situation in which that statement is true. The federal government's new savings incentive of allowing every worker to have an IRA in addition to a retirement plan at work has achieved remarkable results. Many people who never thought of saving anything extra are taking advantage of IRAs. If the premise that taxes are lower when we reach .retirement age is correct, then the money we have set aside tax-free during our high-earning years will be worth a lot to us later - and if inflation is down, it will be worth even more. Another type of retirement savings that has been available for some time but is not as well known is the IRS Tax Shelter plan, which is really a salary-deferral plan. Salary deferral plans promise even greater benefits and flexibility than IRAs, and are beginning to steal some of the thunder from individual retirement accounts. The concept is simple. If your employer agrees to set up such a plan, a certain percentage of your salary, an amount you determine, is set aside for your employer to invest under federally approved guidelines. You may give up all or a part of a scheduled raise, you might even take a pay cut. Now that may sound scary, but it really isn't. The key to salary-deferral is that the amount set aside isn't included in your $$ Salary-Reduction w. IRA Plans Salary-Reduction Plan fund tied in with the state plan. Returns fluctuate with the stock market, so there are no guarantees on those. The ceiling is determined both:by the plan itself and by a complex government formula established to assure balanced participation by both higher-paid and lower-paid employees. Another difference between the two plans is the tax consequence upon withdrawal. Money taken out of an IRA is taxed as regular income; money taken out in a lump sum from a salary-reduction plan qualifies for 10-year averaging, which results in a lower tax rate. Based on 1982 rates, $1Q0,000 taken from a salaryreduction plan would be taxed about 17 percent, whereas that amount taken from an IRA could be taxed at a rate three times as high, depending on income and deductions. Another advantage to salary-deferral is that you may borrow from that account something you may not do with an IRA. You may also save on Social Security tax, because money put into a salaryreduction plan is not included in the income on which that tax is levied. That Unlike the IRA, which assesses a 10 percent penalty for early withdrawal except in the case of disability or death, you may withdraw salary-deferred funds if you change employers or face financial hardship ( the latter has not yet been fully de.fined). However, unless you meet the exemptions for early withdrawal, you can't take the money out of a salary-reduction plan before age 59.5, even if you are ~Hing to pay a penalty. The key to deciding whether or not to go into a salary deferral program is to look at your tax situation. For instance, in the 30 percent bracket, if you save $100 a month of taxable dollars for one year, you end up with a net savings of $840. With salary deferral, you save the entire $1,200, plus tax-free interest. If your present employer does not have a salary-deferral plan, ask that one be investigated. If this article has raised questions for you, the local IRS office suggests you write the Employee Plan Division of IRS, P.O. Box 36001, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California 94102. They will send you specific information about the IRS Tax Shetler Plan discussed above. $$ Individual Retirement Account Yearly contribution can go as high as 25 Annual pay-in's limited to S2,000-S2,250 with a nonworking spouse. percent of salary. Withdrawals before age 59½ are allowed Early withdrawals are allowed without penalty only for disability or death. for financial hardship. Payments into plan are not subject to Social Payments into plan are subject to Social Security tax. Security tax. Lump-sum withdrawals qualify for separate All withdrawals are taxed along with other earnings as regular income. IO-year income averaging. gross income at tax time, which means that it becomes tax free income. Add to that savings the amount earned while the deferred amount is invested ( also tax free) and the accumulation begins to be very interesting. The major difference between salary reduction and an IRA is the amount you may contribute. You are limited to $2,000 a year ( or $2,250 if you cover a nonworking spouse) in an IRA. Under salarydeferral, you may contribute much more sometimes up to 25 percent of your salary. With most firms, though, the average for all employees is restricted to 15 percent. Dodie Williams is the director of advertising and public relations for the Utah State Division of Economic and Industrial Development. could cut your Social Security benefits, but the current tax savings and the advantage of having your own retirement fund should offset the lower future benefits. 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The new college president was unavailable and the personnel director was close-mouthed. Sad and angry, Doe stayed late that night to talk to her meritor, the person who had groomed her for her current position and who had long served as her advisor and friend. She took the ad into his office hoping for sympathy and supp<>rt. His final words were "Go home for the weekend. Relax. Don't jump to conclusions. Never rush into a decision or say something that will provoke a quick, thoughtless response. Don't force people to say 'yes' or 'no."' Before work on Monday she met with another important person who had supported her in her professional career. She repeated her story to this woman. Since Doe had not received any feedback about administrative dissatisfaction with her job, she feared discrimination. "You haven't quit, have you?" was this person's first response. "No, but I want to," Doe replied. "Think of my pride." This mentor reiterated the advice of the first advisor and added that while there might be negative messages she got from herself. She discrimination involved, the whol~ thing used the situation to re-evaluate her job might also simply be a misunderstanding. and the quality of her work. She saw it to In either case, the advice from this friend , be a good job and set about planning ways was to solve this business set-back rather to begin new programs which would than run away from it. benefit the school and her position in its Over the period of the next several administration. In so doing she forced weeks, Doe learned that she had been the herself to look to her task rather than at victim of the hasty miscalculation of a new the personalities around her that may have college president who, ill-informed, had been hoping she would fail or were, at misread the situation in her department. most, indifferent to her success. She Yes, without her knowledge, or her carefu~ly sought support from those with supervisor's knowledge, her job had been advertised. No, she would not be fired. Yes, confidence in her and tried to ignore those she might have hated. All her energy went the people at the college who knew her into the planning of a new program. The work affirmed its high quality. And, yes, in time she might have felt feeling threatened the political environment of a changing was thus diverted into planning. Slowly her organization, the mistake had been determination and focus paid off. damaging to Doe both personally an~ Jane Doe's experience illustrates an professionally. While the particulars of her important point. Work itself may offer the miifortune were unfolding, Doe was point of recovery when you have suffered a tempted many more times to quit. Instead, political set-back in your organization. she took the advice of her two mentors Concentration on work diverts anger into a and stayed through all" the discomfort of constructive mode. Building a reputation rebuilding her credibility with those who becomes more important than saving face. didn't understand the situation accurately. Finding solutions becomes more important During this period she suffered than placing blame. Maintaining sound lowered self-esteem and many times relationships with supportive peers wondered whether she could do her job becomes more important than winning well She was tempted, often, to suspect battles with organizational enemies. she W":IS being picked-on, discriminated Anger at a supervisor, a peer, a against. Her discouragement often made competitor can be a professional set-back. work nearly impossible. Throughout this The impulse to flare up at the perceived period Doe chose to hear the positive enemy is intense. Keeping cool is difficult, feedback she got from friends and cobut angry words often lead to workers rather than emphasize the To protect your priva~ don't waste words with unwanted callers. Your phone is part of your home. And at Mountain Bell, we understand that when someone uses your phone to invade your privacy, it's like an unwanted visitor coming through your front door. But we want you to know that you can have the last word with these callers. By not wasting any words with them at all. If the caller is a salesperson using a hard sell, you don't have to listen.Just say you're not interested, and hangup. If you get an obscene call, or the caller remains silent, don't stop to listen. Above all, don't talk to them. Hang up on their hang-ups. And if these callers keep after you or threaten you, get in touch right away with the police and your local Mountain Bell business office. We'll help you find other ways to deal with these calls. No matter what kind of unwanted calls you . get, let your actions speak louder than their words. By hanging up. It's the be~t waywe-know to protect the privacy of your home. And your phone. Fortbewayyou live. @ Mountain Bell - -- NKIWORK, AUGUST 1982 17 confrontations which dictate extreme reactions and manipulate unfortunate decisions. The instant a situation becomes personalized, the emotions can take over, and, at that point, the issue ceases to have importance. Decisions made for subjective reasons are often inappropriate and unproductive. Rejections and organizational set-backs will happen periodically on any job and to qiost employees. Your response to the setback is important. Why do they happen a person's personal style irritates you or them, there is a lack of communication, a lack of information, or the moon is full. After you get past the initial surge of anger and hurt, your response to a set-back needs to take various pieces of information into account: Is the job important to me? Have I asked all the needed questions of the specific people? Do I have accurate information about my job performance? Have I looked at the issue objectively? Do I have suporters in key areas? Have I gotten accurate information from them? Have I assessed this information carefully and made a plan that will allow me to work effectively in the future? When the above information is ·gathered, you can look at your job and your future in it. If you conclude you have no more to contribute or that you no longer have the organizational power you need to contribute, you may decide to look for another job. Coming to that conclusion after careful, thoughtful examination of the situation will equip you with valuable experience as you seek a new job. Building a career is a creative, future-oriented process that isn't helped by selfincrimination and negative remembrances. Whether you decide to stay or leave, looking directly at all the information available to you, listening to your supporters, analyzing the set-bac~, focusing on plans to ~ your role more product.iv~ will make you a more valuable employee. Wen~y F<0ster-Leigh is a writer and artist as well as the associate dean for external programs at Westminster College. AUGUST 1 PAT CLUFF'S PORCEIAIN SHOW The Canyon Gallery at Alta features porcelain by Pat Cluff through August 3 l. Thursday-Sunday, 12-6 p.m. Call 742-2209. 1-29 RAPE CRISIS CENI'ER FUNDRAISER Buy a ticket and be eligible to win a 1V and a suite for two at the Airport Hilton. Call 532-RAPE. 1-31 PHYSICAL CONDmONING SEQUENCE Yoga, aerobics, ballet exercises, weight lifting, learn to isolate and work muscles, beginning meditation. Continuous ·registration, convenient hours, reasonable rates. 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Call Well-Being Associates at 355-2012. 20-22 FALL FASHION SHOWS Crossroads Plaza presents four dynamic Fall fashion shows. lbe latest in men's and women's fashlons will be modeled by the top six models as judged in the Utah Male and Female Model of the Year P'.igeant. Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. Mannequin modeling will be featured throughout the· Plaza all three days. 28-29 TOUCH FOR HEALTH WORKSHOP Westminster College Bamberger Room 110. Call 466-7606. Fee 575, SlO deposit required by August 23rd. Remarkable "One More" hair complement. Not a wig or hair piece. See to believe ... as demonstrated on 1V. Demonstration every Friday, 7 p.m. Register at 484- 184 l. SEPTEMBER 7 BEGINNING ASSERTION For women, with Bonnie McBeth, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. for seven weeks at the Phoenix Institute, 383 S. 600 E. Call 532-5080. 13 ANGER MANAGEMENT For women, with Bonnie McBeth, 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Mondays for seven weeks at Phoenix Institute, 383 S. 600 E. 575. Call 532-5080. lS ADVANCED ASSER'I10N For women, with Bonnie McBeth, on Wednesdays for seven weeks at Phoenix Institute, 383 S. 600 E. Call 532-5080. 16 16 SELF-ESTEEM Call Bonnie McBeth for details at the Phoenix Institute, 532-5080. UNIVERSAL YOGA Talk by Swami Narayananda, director of Swami Muktananda's Siddha Yoga Ashram, Oakland, California. Everyone welcome. Free. See next issue for time and place. 18-19 'I1IE PERFECT LIFE Siddha Yoga Meditation. Intensive, powerful two-day workshop designed by worldreknowned meditation master Swami Muktananda to give a complete experience and understanding of meditation. Conducted by Swami Narayananda. 9:00-5:30, $95, includes vegetarian lunches. Call 583-5302 for more information. Ewents listed iA the Network caleiadar are paid adftrtisements (SS per line). For iAformation and placement contact Merry L}'l':ett, S32-609S. T ~q1111,l AVENUES RESmENTIAL CENTER H E \Xf O 1 · ru:, IVI E . N ' J EX __ - ~ G r O U Pl. -e E · Q U I D E Did you know that there are 69 women doctors practicing in Utah? They're listed in the 1982183 Women's Index and ~ Resource Guide. Have you reserved your copy yet? To order at pre-publication prices, see form on page 8. Home-like atmosphere Walking distance to downtown Kitchen and laundry facilities Group accommodations available Single: $13., night/ $65., week $}00., plus tax Double: $20. Vll'ginia Peebles, Proprietor t-801-363-8137 107 "F" Street, SLC LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER has moved to 1141 East 3900 South, Suite A-130 "Salt Lake's Only Hostel" • • • • anita •an41.er 9 'Acsw · 278-0141 Services include: why cook?-call us! baked goods• cafe •cappuccino• catering 1 460 foothill dr. • salt lake city• utah • 841 08 • 583-5.1 55 - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - • Individual/Couple Family/Group Counseling • Child Custody Evaluations 18 NE'IWORK, AUGUST 1982 A. DIANE MOELLER and NORMA B. ASHTON have been appointed to the 17 member board of trustees of the Intermountain Health Care Organization (IHC). Moeller, formerly IHC vice Edited by Jeanne Shaw president of professional services, recently accepted a position with the Catholic Health Association as vice president of the division of member services. ANNE ORIANDO has been appointed daughter of Rulon Allred, who was CLEA RASMUSSEN has been promoted Senior Client Representative for Thompson assassinated May 10, 1977. The book to senior vice president and cashier for Recruitment Advertising, Inc., a subsidiary discusses modem day polygamy, as well as Sandy State Bank, where she will have of J. Walter Thompson Company. Before . the roots of polygamy in the Mormon overall responsibility for bank operations, joining Thompson, Orlando specialized in Church. Only those who were previous security, auditing and personnel. real estate advertising. She's originally from winners in one of the book-length Rasmussen joined Sandy State Bank in 1977 categories of a prerequisite w;riting contest Williamsville, New York, where she five years experience at Tracy Collins after were allowed to compete. Soloman will graduated from Itacha College before .A recent appointment by Mayor Ted L. Bank. receive a $5,000 prize and will have the going on to study in London, England. Wilson makes CHERYL D. COOK the first BARBARA L GANN has been named Orlando is also a reporter for a week-day opportunity to publish her book. woman ever appointed a Treasurer for Salt public relations and advertising specialist public affairs program on K1VX-1V. SUZANNE M. DALLIMORE has been Lake City Corporation. A graduate of the for First Security Company, the service and appointed assistant attorney general in DR. LJNDAKAY AMOS, dean of the American Bankers Association National management arm of First Security charge of antitrust enforcement for the University of Utah College of Nursing, has Schqol of Bank Investments, Cook was Corporation, regional bank holding state by Utah Attorney General David L. been elected president of the American previously assistant vice president, company. Gann will be responsible for Wilkinson. Dallimore was previously a Association of Colleges of Nursing for investment officer for Commercial Security corporate publicity, communications and senior associate at Jones, Waldo, Holbrook 1982-84. The AACN was established in Bank where she has worked for six years. advertising. She previously worked as the & McDonough, where she had 1969 to improve the practice of She has served as a member of the board of marketing director at the Layton Hills Mall considerable litigation experience in state, professional nursing, promote research and directors of the Utah Bond Club since and also as the special events coordinator federal and bankruptcy courts and develop academic leaders, there are 310 1979 and as vice president of the club in · for the University of Utah Alumni · specialized in commercial transactions and member institutions nationwide. 1981/82. Association. Gann is a U. of U. graduate contracts. A native Salt Laker, Dallimore SANDI BEAM and SUSAN ORTII who has.been the publicity director for the graduated cum laude frol!l the University YDOR0111Y SOLOMAN is the 1982 recently opened Cornerstone Investment Utah Heritage Foundation and a committee of Utah in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in Realty ::it 1723 So. Richards, offering Utah Art's Council Publication Prize member of the Utah Advertising philosophy. She completed her law degree winner for her book In My Father's House, services to get women into properties and Federation. . at the U. in 1977. which describes her experience as the propose property as tax sbelters. They also Lw..IAN WITKOWSKI, engineering formed a partnership with LOms coordinator for the Department of 'IHOMAS and DEBORAH en.us, Transportation, is the new president for president of Repo Services Inc. which the Salt Lake Business and Professional markets, buys, sells, rents, maintains, and Women's Club. President-elect is LYNN renovates repossessed properties GABRIELSON, ISCC manager at Mountain throughout the state to facilitate Bell; and Vice~President is ARLEY ANN foreclosures for lending agencies. GORIS, Assistant Controller at Alan Frank Utah State University has selected two and Associates. The Salt Lake Business and new women's coaches for the 1982-83 Professional Women's Club is a part of the academic year. ANNKITE CO'ITLE, now Utah Federation and was founded in 1913. head volleyball coach, comes from two CARIA L. KELLEY is the new president seasons as coach in Reno, Nevada, and was of Women's Information Network, an a four-time AIAW All-American. She also organization designed to link networks of received the 1979 Broderick Award which women in business, helping them to excel is given to the top female collegiate professionally. FRANCES A. CROOKSTON volleyball player in the country. KAREN is vice president; SUE APITZ, secretary; LOGAN, co-founder of the Women's LINDA IARSEN, treasurer; and REBECCA Basketball League and the Lady's Basketball DICKEN-ATWATER, reporter. League, has been named head basketball coach. BEUIAH SIA.GEL has been elected vice president of the Credit Women Intemafional at its international conference in Anaheim, California, CWl is a non-profit organization of 419 clubs in the United States and Canada dedicated to the purpose of education in the credit procedures. Slagel, manager of escrow contracts for Zions First National Bank, has held offices at the CWI local, district and international levels. She is also a certified consumer credit executive and serves on We are proud to acquaint you with Vicki Ashby, our First the board of directors of eight major Assistant Manager at the Provo McDonald's. companies. Vicki began her career as a crew person and has progressed through the various levels of management. MARLENE c. WINDELS, manager of As a First Assistant Manager, her responsibilities incl~de Personnel Pool of Salt Lake City, a national hiring and training of crew people and manageme~t, or~enng and temporary help service, has been scheduling, many aspects of inventory con~rol and insuring hf!!r appointed to the Steering Committee of customers in the Provo area the McDonald s standard of quality, the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce service and cleanliness they expect. Economic Development Committee. She is also active on the Chamber's Public Relations, Legislative Action and Women's Council Committees, and the Salt Lake IF YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL. WE HAYE THE SYSTEM TO DEVELOP IT. Convention Bureau. The Utah Women's History Association We offer: has chosen new officers for the 1982-83 -An entry level position with a 6½ billion dollar corporation . year: JESSIE EMBRY, director of the -A comprehensive training program with frequent evaluation. Charles Redd Oral History Program at BYU -A highly competitive salary structure. with an average of two promotional raises the first year. is president; PATRICIA scorr, librarian -An opportunity to manage your own restaurant within two years. for Salt Lake City Public Library is vice president and president elect; LORI -A "pay for performance. promote from within" philosophy. HEFNER, records manager for the State Archives and CHRISTY BEST, manuscripts To Be A Part Of The Great American Success Story: cataloger with L.D.S. Church Historical Department now hold one term on the Call Lorene Aylett and arrange for an interview. organization's governing council. Open to all interested in Utah Women's History, Contact: Lorene Aylett those interested should contact Linda McDonald's Corporation Thatcher, Utah State Historical Society. 1877 East 4800 South new landings WOMEN IN McDONALD'S® Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 [phone] "The Great American Success Story" AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER ACTIVELY SEEKING WOMEN AND MINORITIES NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 l!) news and notes Edited by Tim Fredriclmon AIN'T NO REASON NOTTO . WGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE REDEFINING "LUCIDITY" NEW HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER PHOTOGRAPHIC RECOLLECTIONS ANUPWARD DOWNWARD TREND? Volunteers from Salt Lake's Rape Crisis Center are currently selling one dollar tickets good for a hamburger at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers as a part of the center's annual fundraising drive. The center hopes to sell 7,000 of the tickets ( donated by Wendy's), which will also make the buyer • eligible for other prizes donated by local businesses inducting • a 19-inch color Hitachi television, a suite for two at the Airport Hilton, and a 20-piece china set. The Rape Crisis Center offers services for rape victims and their families, and educational and preventive services in the community on sexual abuse. For information on obtaining tickets, call the Rape Crisis Center at 532-7273. A four-day conference on tactics for sex equity in higher education will be held beginning August 4th on the University of Utah campus. Bernice Sandler, project director on the status and education of women for the Association of American Colleges, will give the keynote address on sex discrimination in higher education. Other sessions will be on humor as an equity tactic, government's role in higher education, and institution budget and finance. The conference is sponsored by Higher Education Resource Services West. For information write to them at 293 Olpin Union, University of Utah, Salt IAke City, Utah 84112. Some great news from Congressman Dan Marriott, but there's a catch. You've got to believe. A lot. And throw out your pocket calculator. Congressman Dan, well known for his excursions into mental sophistry, says, "The same amount of dollars earned in 1980 will purchase significantly more goods and services io 1982." In the latest edition of his "Report to the People" newsletter, Marriott cites the current inflation rate of 3.5 percent, and a .3 percent rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index for the second quarter of 1982 to prove his claim that, "The average family of four with an income of $24,332 will have $1 1,557 more (his emphasis) in purchasing power than it would have in 1 980. The poverty level family of four with an income of $8,414 will have $538 more." A new clearing-house for health-related information and education resources, the Consumer Health Information Center, has opened in Trolley Square. Staffed by a health educator, coordinator, and volunteers, the center offers an extensive, on-going guide to Salt Lake City's health-related services, including health agencies, classes, workshops, screenings, clinics, self-help groups, and organizations. Additionally, the center contains a Ubrary of health publications, with additional pamphlets and brochures available for distribution. The Consumer Health Information Center is funded primarily by LDS Hospital, with grants from several local businesses, and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. For information call 364-9318. The Salt Lake Art Center will present a touring exhibition, "Recollections: Ten Women of Photography," August 6th through September 12th in its Main Gallery. The exhibit is touring under the direction of the International Center for Photography and features the work of ten women photographers born between 1890 and 1905. Twenty images by each of the ten photographers represented make up the exhibition which includes the work of Berenice Abbott, Barbara Morgan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Toni Frissefl. A hardbound book has been published by the Viking Press to complement the touring exhibit. The Salt Lake Art Center's hours are from 10 ~.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays, closed Mondays. For information call 328-4201. Although public opinion polls show that Ronald Reagan's approval rating with American voters is continually declining - to 4 3 percent in April, according to a Gallup poll - he's really much better off than he was 40 years ago. According to Psychology Toqay, "a regular survey of opinions on actors' 'marquee value' showed that in the 1940s, the highest proportion of Americans who said they would 'make a special effort' to see Reagan ( in a movie) was only 30 percent." All text fol' classified adYcrtising is accepted at the discretion ex the publisher. Services and products cannot be tested; listings do not imply endorsement by Networlt. Rates for NetworltClassifted arc S.20 per word ($4 minimum); add Sl for bold head Post office box numbers count as two words; telephone numbers as one; zip codes arc free. Cltcck or money order, made payable to Networl, Magazine, must accompany copy and be rCICdvcd prior to the 15th of the month prccediog pubUc:atJon. Send to: Networlt Classified. 349 S. 600 E. SLC, UI' 84102. ROOMMATES PRODUCI5 FUN parties for ladies. Lingerie, bedroom toys. Bookings, reps wanted. Presented in the comfort and confidential atmosphere of your own home. Lilli, 532-3760. 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We'll help you find or sell used stereo equipment at no cost or obligation. 467-9649. extra cash? Call Today ' 532-6095 WESTMI NSTER COLLEGE _ _-,--_ _ _C_i_t:Y- Center Campus Evening Classes On-site Classes Credit for Experience Classes begin: September 8th Contact Beverly Lee _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _;_ subscribe to network 532-6095 Westminster College Division of Adult Programs 484-8831 20 NETWORK, AUGUST 1982 PRINCIPAIS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 looking for professions with higher salaries. If the trend continues, education may become a field more open to women. However, gains for women on this basis, e.g., by default, would do little to improve the second-class economic standing of women in education. A better prospect for Utah's women lies in the tremendous growth expected in the state's schools. While enrollment drops in other -states and threatens the positions of recently-hired women leaders, the Utah State Office of Education is predicting school population growth at a rate of 20,000 students per year for at least the next five years. And these figures account only for those children born in Utah, excluding those whose families may move here from out of state. This growth will insure the hiring of at least 3,000 additional teachers in the next five years along with a commensurate number of administrators. Once the opportunities are available, the question remaining is whether sufficient numbers of qualified women will step forward to compete for them. Beth Davis, senior education specialist for equal opportunity at the Utah State Office of Education, is guardedly optimistic that more women will be ready and willing to commit themselves to the task. She reports that the University of Utah, where most Utah teachers get their graduate degrees, "is consciously encouraging women to prepare themselves for a future of opportunity. And I know of a number of bright young women in the works now who will be ready to compete in a few years." Those women already in administrative jobs see the emergence of more women who are committed to entering the rivalry for top positions. "I know of several women I feel have the potential, and I encourage them," say Barnes. "But I tell them that nothing is guaranteed. You have to be assertive or you won't make it in administration. You can't be a leader if you can't lead out for your own self interest." The economic questions are harder to call. No one can say what revenues women can expect from a school system caught between cut-backs and phenomenal growth. No one can predict how the general health of the economy will affect the "second income synclrome" so prevalent among women teachers today. At any rate, with some successes now on the record, most feel the time could be right for the trickle of women presently entering administration to become a healthy stream. Kristie Guynn is a freelance writer and a paralegal at the law fimi of Snow, Christensen and Martineau. 515 SOUTH 400 EAST SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 [phone] by appointment only Susan De Vries Sprints Toward The Olympics At eleven, Susan ran with the Skyline High Team, working out with them until she joined the East High track team in the ninth grade. track coach at Skyline High School, agreed to train her. At eleven, Susan ran with the Skyline High team, working out with them untjl she joined the East High track team in the ninth grade. Poole is still present at many of her meets and continues to influence her interest in sprinting. The winner in 1981 of the 100 meter and 200 meter events at the Utah State Class A Championship meet, Susan became the star of the East High track team. This year she missed that state track meet : because she was vacationing with her : family in Hawaii, but the highlight of this - summer will be the time she spends ~ training with an expert from UCIA, 1ii coming specifically to work with her, at the U.S. Olympic Development Regional Training Camp in Colorado Springs, Susan DeVries: A water bed and stereo to take to college Colorado. What has early fame done for this tall, lanky, soft-spoken redhead? And what are By Karen Shepherd her plans for the future; will she be wisked Susan DeVries, Utah's fastest prep off to one of the big universities on an sprinter may be on her way to the athletic scholarship? Network asked those Olympics. Sprinters run the short, fast questions: races, although the longest, at 800 meters, -"I want to stay here," answers Susan isn't really short. The prep-aged runners, instantly. all those between 14 and 17 are the "I want her to go," states her mother at youngest group of competitors allowed to almost the same moment. "She's too young attend U.S..Olympic Development Training to be approached legally, but she has been unofficially offered a full ride to schools Camps. that have the best track facilities in the At 16 Susan Devries has already been running for seven years. Her first race, run country. Those are opportunities that she can't get here - the finest facilities and the because her gym teacher in the fourth grade thought she was exceptionally fast, best people to work with." was in Washington D.C. when the "I'm taking my water bed and my DeVries's lived there. It was the East Coast stereo," Susan laughs, at once thoughtful and pleased about the possibilities in her Junior Olympic meet and Susan took first place in the 50 yard event. She's been future. collecting ribbons and trophies ever since. Kay and Larry DeVrtes are actively Returning to Utah when Susan was supporting their daughter's talent. Larry is beginning the sixth grade, the DeVries family found little available for so young a "I did want to be a track runner. A friend, Craig Poole, now the coach but my dad would coach of the women's track team at like me to be an engineer." Brigham Young University and then the • Walk-in Pregnancy Testing • Professional Counseling • Family Planning • Voluntary Sterilization • Abortions • Cervical Cap • Adoption Referral ALL ABOVE SERVICES offered confidentially by qualified medical & counseling staff Member National Abortion Federation a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. Kay, a light technician at Intermountain Dermatology, says that they sent Susan to 14 different track meets across the country last year. Travel is expensive so Susan had to learn to take the trips alone. "It's hard to know," says Kay, "where to draw the line between support and pressure. I tell her we'll do track until it's not fun anymore, but I always wonder where support ends and push begins." "They're all at my local meets," says Susan. "They support me a lot." What's it like for girls on the track team at East High; do peers approve of girls in sports? "It's a really popular thing to do girls sports. I'll play anything but track's the biggie right now. I like it because I get to go to all the meets, get to know the team better." East High track coach Ben Stowell has 90 young athletes in his charge. Thirty of them are girls. Since sprinters don't fully mature until 21, Susan is seen as a possible challenger for the 1988 Olympics. "That's a long way away," she sighs, not knowing that the time between 16 and 22 is half as long as the time between 10 and 16. She'll have graduated from college by then. "I did want to be a track coach," she says. "But my dad would like me to be an engineer." A straight "A" student and the recipient of both the University of Utah's and Weber State College's outstanding prep athlete award, Susan will have many choices. Meanwhile she is spending her sixteenth summer planning and doing her own workouts, talking to her friends and just being a kid. Karen Shepherd is the editor of Network'.