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...Women's Lib matured sooner, I might have gone to trade school to become either a carpenter or cabinetmaker. I may still try it after our two children enter school. My husband approves, but my father, a carpenter, feels that in a job situation the men would be more interested in the fact that I was female than that I was coworker...
...year-old divorcee, mother and sole supporter of two children, and have been a legal secretary for eleven years. At a time when Women's Lib appears to be the coming thing. I find that my views are changing contrary to the trend. I have had my "liberation" and the victory is hollow. I find at times I yearn to feel again the exotic pleasure of hurrying home to prepare a man's meal, to iron and clean-not for me-but for him. My inner self is somewhat incomplete in its "glorious" independence...
Second-Class. The New Feminism has touched off a debate that darkens the air with flying rolling pins and crockery. Even Psychology's relatively liberated readers are not exempt. Male letter writer: "As far as Women's Lib is concerned, I think they are all a bunch of lesbians, and I am a male chauvinist and proud of it." Female: "It's better to let them think they're king of the castle, lean and depend on them, and continue to control and manipulate them as we always have...
...daughter of a retired Air Force officer, Janet is politically conservative and has little use for the basic goals of Women's Lib. She thinks equal pay for equal work is a nonissue. "Maybe most women don't work as hard as men do. I encounter more frustrated men than I do women in the course of a day. Everyone has his pay gripes, men as much as women, and just as legitimately so." Her solution for women's economic ambitions? "Pick a growing industry where everyone is overworked...
Women's Lib? "I'm not interested." Religion? "I don't go to church. They're robbers. I can pray at home, and He'll hear me just the same, and I don't have to pay for it." Politics? "I have no hope in elections. I've written to Nixon, Rockefeller and Lindsay. They all say they can't do anything. I don't trust nobody." The future? "If things don't shape up, my children won't live for it. Society will kill them and put them...