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French Women in the Resistance--by Celia Bertin, historian and visiting scholar, Center for European Studies., 27 Kirkland...
...bank. Friedan says it is "outrageous" for feminists to align themselves with an employer who is trying to evade offering important benefits to women. NOW and the A.C.L.U. say they do not support the bank and simply want the law's benefits for women extended to men. Says Joan Bertin, associate director of the A.C.L.U. women's group: "The question is, Should a woman with a pregnancy disability get her job back when other employees with disabilities get fired? You undermine your argument unless you say everyone is equally entitled to this benefit." The U.S. Supreme Court will hear...
...debate has a few overtones of a familiar split in feminism: strongly pro- family women vs. women who sometimes speak of childbearing as a major obstacle to achieving feminist goals. Bertin, the mother of two, once referred to pregnancy and hernias as two temporary disabilities that ought to be covered. She says the CREW brief has "more of a flavor of a desire to glorify / pregnancy," while the NOW and A.C.L.U. briefs have "more of a flavor to make pregnancy not the thing around which women are defined." Says Friedan: "Some people are still busy reversing the feminine mystique, saying...
...what is called collège, and are considered to be in an "observation" cycle for two years. At the end of this period, teachers sort them into those who will get vocational training and those who will go to a lycée for university preparation. Says Monique Bertin-Mourot, a press officer at the Ecole des Parents, an organization that deals with family and school problems: "Parents know that if the child doesn't get the right orientation early on, he'll end up in one of the classes poubelles [garbage-can classes] instead of getting...
...aerotrain, says Bertin modestly, "is intended to complement the car for distances between 70 and 140 miles." With that in mind, he flew to the U.S. this week. His objective: the formation of a joint Franco-American firm to build a demonstration aerotrain that could cut travel time between New York and Washington to an hour and a half...