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...hopes to defeat key opponents during the 1978 state-legislature elections-a tactic that could produce some last-minute ratifications early in 1979. Sympathetic groups like the National Education Association have announced they will not schedule conventions in states that have not passed the ERA. Proclaims NOW Founder Betty Friedan: "I say to the women of America, we gotta stop being so ladylike." Florida legislators were quick to laugh off the threatened boycott of the state's tourist industry. As one state senator put it: "We got oceans, white sand, orange juice and Anita Bryant, and that...
...Sadness in Suburbia: Psychiatric Profiles of Twenty-Five Housewives before and after reading Betty Friedan...
When the First Women's Bank opened a year ago on Manhattan's 57th Street, it was heralded as the answer to a feminist prayer. Founded by a small group of activists, among them Author Betty Friedan and Dress Designer Pauline Trigère, the new bank was supposed to be run as well as owned primarily by women and to give "special attention to the needs" of female depositors and borrowers who felt unwelcome at big, established banks. If such a venture'can be a commercial success, the first year has hardly proved the point...
...board of directors, which is headed by a Manhattan lawyer, Evelyn Lehman, and includes four men. Some directors got into the venture for idealistic reasons but soon discovered that the job of guiding a new commercial enterprise can be unexpectedly demanding. One of First Women's women, Betty Friedan, left the bank in March, citing as a reason her writing schedule. Says she: "They gave me hell for missing too many board meetings...
...sheep on the family ranch in Australia's Outback, Jill Ker Conway "took deep pleasure in ideas and wanted learning more than anything else." Now Conway, 41, brings that zeal to her job as the first woman president of Smith College, the alma mater of such feminists as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem...