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...firmly the majority ruled. "I learned all about parliamentary procedure," said Sharon Talbot, "but I never got to hear the pro-family side. It's only fair that they should get to speak too." Linda Downs, editor of Woman Time, a bimonthly dealing with working women, said that businesswomen she knew thought the convention was a "ripoff because it was so onesided. The T-shirt brigade predominated, and that was unfortunate. The emotional issues predominated, and that too was unfortunate...
Ives was militantly for women's suffrage, and he addressed his insurance circulars to businesswomen as well as men; but his wife Harmony evidently found it necessary to play a quietly supportive role, and Ives incessantly denounced the "femaled-male crooners" who were "emasculating America for money!" And on other political issues--Ives became something of a crank late in his life, sending plans for new governmental systems, but even before he developed these plans--Ives displayed a similar ambivalence of feeling. "Vote for Names! Names! Names!" he exclaimed during the 1912 election. "Three nice men Teddy, Woodrow & Bill...
...Matter of Taste. Black businesswomen can provide a bridge to the $45 billion-a-year Negro consumer market. In Kansas City, Inez Kaiser started her own integrated firm, which specializes in market consulting and earns more than $100,000 a year. "I try to tell white businessmen," she says, "that black is now, black is profit, black is here to stay." In Chicago, Barbara Proctor, president and owner of Proctor and Gardner Advertising Inc., argues that U.S. tastes today originate in the black community, then gradually spread to more affluent whites. She therefore advises her clients-including the Jewel supermarket...
...Scary Thing. Black businesswomen often contend that the toughest prejudice that they face is not racist but sexist. Rosanna Wright, 30, president of Wright-Edlen Advertising Inc. in Los Angeles, takes the most optimistic view. "White men find it easier to work with a black woman than with a black man," she says. "They don't expect women to succeed, so they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look...
...black businesswomen turn to Women's Lib for help? Not at all. Explains Kansas City's Inez Kaiser: "This Women's Lib thing is created by a bunch of frustrated, middle-class white women who want to be liberated from the boredom of housekeeping. Black women have always had to work...