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...partisans know her as a raucously passionate crusader for minority rights, Women's Lib and the antiwar movement, a truculent and courageous woman. To the less friendly, she comes on as a sumo liberal, a lady wrestler, Joan of Arc resurrected as an elemental yenta. No one, friend or enemy, denies that Bella Abzug has a certain presence...
...cause fared better. Officials waived the rules and 11-year-old Susan Farbin entered the Soap Box Derby traditionally open only to boys aged 11 to 15. She obtained the sponsorship of the National Organization for Women and emblazoned her bright pink racer with a Women's Lib emblem of sexual equality. In the derby finals, Susan may have unsettled some of the boys' dawning prejudices about women drivers by going faster than a greased (male chauvinist) pig and taking three trophies-for best racer construction, first in her age class and second in the overall finish...
...Extremism in any movement-despite its attention-getting value-scares off potential followers, and makes it all too easy for dissenters to attack or ridicule its aims. Women's Lib is no exception. There is the further danger that female chauvinism will mislead and confuse the women themselves, particularly younger ones who have little experience to give them ballast. Consider, for example, the consequences of distorting or exaggerating three of the movement's most enlightening propositions...
...Today's women should certainly see the traditional role as only one possibility in their lives, and then feel free to accept or reject it. But are they conditioned by culture to accept it? Or at least influenced as powerfully as Women's Lib claims? Does overemphasizing this point discourage women from striking out for themselves? If cultural conditioning accounts for everything, there would be no Women's Lib. To devastate some feminists with whom she disagrees, Germaine Greer suggested that their theories were "devised by minds diseased by the system." If conditioning were all, Greer...
...accelerating change is a result not only of the rise of Women's Lib (see TIME Essay, page 36), but of a complex of other social, legal and economic factors. Women are getting more formal education-42% of last June's college graduates were women-and they want to put their degrees to work. Now that civil rights laws bar discrimination by sex, more and more women are demanding relatively high-pay, blue-collar jobs. Federal courts have ruled against companies that refused to hire women as railway agents and telephone switchmen. In the courts, women...