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...preclude discrimination. In business, however, my field is communications and until eight months ago my case was classic-same work, much lower pay, no status, no opportunity for advancement. Then suddenly I was promoted to management level, a "first" with this company. Who can say why? Women's Lib, Government regulations, more enlightened executives, devoted work at any job they gave me. Probably a combination...
...used to think Women's Lib was silly, but I suppose every woman has her own personal moment of realization that some people seem to be more equal than others. Mine came last year when I was the only woman elected to the board of directors of our local teachers' organization. When we sat down for our first meeting I was given a pad of paper because it was naturally assumed that I would take notes. Pow! The message was loud and clear...
...member of Women's Lib, but its views have made me honestly examine myself. As soon as the children are in nursery school, I am going back to college to get a degree and to seek a career in social service...
...that the number of people who paid no tax whatever on incomes of $200,000 or more declined from 300 in 1969 to 112 in 1970 (before final audit). Simultaneously, though. Congress has piled on new tax breaks. The latest, enacted last year in a bow to Women's Lib, is a child-care deduction for working mothers in families with incomes up to $27,000 a year...
...coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved by the Pay Board. Mrs. Whitman plans to move back to Washington with her husband, an English professor who will work on a research project, and their two children. Women's Lib disapproves of the professional use of a married name, but Mrs. Whitman's has had an unexpected benefit for her. As an offspring following in the footsteps of a famous father, she says, "I probably would have had more difficulty if I had been John von Neumann...