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...think I'll go into the foreign service. It's less masculine than politics. Competition, backbiting in politics tend to make you less feminine." In the coed dorm, such attitudes are challenged as "sexist" and "untrue." Some of these changes stem from women's lib, Reid notes, yet she is convinced from the tenor of her interviews that the coed dorm life-style was even more influential...
...than their blues and rock counterparts. Most male country stars have deep bass baritones that seem to say: this man sits tall in the saddle. Women stars tend to have bright, unstrained sopranos-or a Lynn Anderson land of nasal chirpiness-that rule out not only women's lib but any other kind of defiance. In the past, country lyrics have been astonishingly repressive. Blind loyalty to husband, parents, even political leaders has been a common theme. When men have sung about women, the subject (always excepting long-suffering Mother) has often been the pain, not the pleasure...
Women's lib has also begun to reach the once hostile nonworking wives of blue-collar men. In a working-class section of Brooklyn, a group of twelve housewives from families earning roughly $12,000 a year meet weekly in a consciousness-raising group to examine their traditional lifestyles. A nationwide survey of 660 women conducted last year by Social Research Inc., an independent market-research company, found a radical shift in the attitudes of blue-collar workers' wives over the past decade. These women no longer automatically accept the notion that they must stay at home...
Sweet land of lib...
...life has not been in building up wartime morale but in raising the peacetime stature of women. "Many changes have come to Egypt under Sadat," says one, "but Jehan is the greatest change of all." Mrs. Sadat has become the symbol of a special kind of women's lib adapted to a country where women are still generally held down. Without upsetting the traditional male role as family head, Mrs. Sadat has persistently worked for greater rights for women. Among other things, her husband recently appointed his first female Cabinet Minister and Egypt's first women judges...