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Show NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS·, INC. CITATIONS OF CRITERIA MET BY· 1967 TOP HAT AWARD RECIPIENTS JOSEPH A. BOYD, JR., Dade County Commissioner, Miami Springs, Florida. In ecognition of outstanding contributions toward the advancement of employed women in. Dade County since his election te> the Dade County 'Commission in 1958. Mr. Boyd's many contributions include: (1) Strong support of a County Commission policy of no discrimination of sexes in the employment of county personnel; (2) advocating state legislation providing equal pay for equal work regardless of $ex in pll employment, public and private; (3) voting for the succe$sful appointments of twenty-five women to numerous Dade County Boards where they have served with distinction; (4) voting- to support a raise in pay for nurses at Dade County hospitals, and current both three-man committee to negotiat and work toward improving conditions and other hospital personnel. service on for the nurses a DOYLE DANE BERNBACH, INC., Advertising, New York, New York, In recogniton of oustanding opportunities for women to advance to managerial and executive positions within the company. Fo r ty-e f'Lve percent of Doyle Dane Be rnbach l s emplqyees are women. Top women executives include: the vice-president and general manager, five vice president-copy supervi$ors, three radio-television producers, two account executives and a vice-president for product development. Recent "firsts" for women at Doyle Dane Bernbach include a woman group head in research, a woman marketing executive and a woman public relations account executive. Many women also hold supervisory positions traditionally open to men such as art director, legal editor, media group supervisor and computer systems analyst. All internal training programs are open to women and the Agency has a fifty percent reimbursement policy for business -- related courses, open to women as well as men. FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR DIVISION of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Syossett, Long Island, New York. In recognition of the establishment of a plant in Shiprock, New Mexico, to utilize the talents of Indian women on the Navajo Over the past year and a half the Shiprock facilities have expanded from fifty employees to five hundred and forty employees today. Of this, approxi mately four hundred and seventy are Navajo women employed in various clerical and Reservation. administrative positions and as electronic assemblers. Fairchild Semiconductor at Shiprock is the largest non-governmental employer of Indians in the United States. In addition to increasing the overall number of women employees, the division conducts on-the-job training, has established educational facilities in the plant and outside training to better prepare women for work, has encouraged educational for employees, and has raised the cou:ses pay scales for women by supporting leglslation for equal pay. |
