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...turn asks me, what do all these women want, and we talk. I have never actually talked to a policeman before, I tell him, and he says he has never talked to a demonstrator either. We are about the same age; he agrees finally that Women's Lib makes sense, but he won't discuss the war. I tell him about Harvard, about my nightmares of policemen charging, swinging clubs. I really do have those nightmares. He is horrified. Maybe, he says, the police in Boston are different. Maybe. He tells me he'll remember my freckles...
...supporter of Women's Lib. I, a woman, worked my way at night through college and grad school; I now hold an M.S. degree and have a tenyear background of executive secretarial work in business and industry. Within the last year, I have worked my way up from secretary to acting head of a department in a medium-sized industry. However, I do not hold the title, and I earn $3,000 to $5,000 less than males holding jobs of less or similar responsibility, and who for the most part do not even hold a bachelor...
...infamy and shame" and urged his supporters to wear black armbands "mourning the death of femininity." Boston marchers filed past counterdemonstrators carrying signs saying "Hardhats for Soft Broads." In Los Angeles, H.O.W. (Happiness of Womanhood) members paraded posters proclaiming "Communists Have Done It Again" and "Women's Lib Is a Society of Man-Eaters...
Changes that now seem small may get bigger: MEN'S LIB. Men now suffer from more diseases due to stress, heart attacks, ulcers, a higher suicide rate, greater difficulty living alone, less adaptability to change and, in general, a shorter life span than women. There is some scientific evidence that what produces physical problems is not work itself, but the inability to choose which work, and how much. With women bearing half the financial responsibility, and with the idea of "masculine" jobs gone, men might well feel freer and live longer...
...attach their whole sense of self to youth and appearance; thus there will be fewer nervous breakdowns when the first wrinkles appear. Lighting cigarettes and other treasured niceties will become gestures of mutual affection. "I like to be helped on with my coat," says one Women's Lib worker, "but not if it costs me $2,000 a year in salary...