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Does the battle of the sexes boil down to nothing more than who brings home the bacon? In Austin, Texas, to encourage women to organize locally for child-care centers and improved salaries and working conditions, Women's Lib Spokeswoman Gloria Steinem seemed to be saying so. Said Gloria: "I think Jacqueline Onassis has a very clear understanding of marriage. I have a lot of respect for women who win the game with rules given you by the enemy...
...Women's Lib Has No Soul." So proclaims the cover of the latest issue of Encore, the black newsmagazine. Inside, an essay by Psychologist Rose Finkenstaedt condemns the feminist movement as "little more than the hysterical exhibitionism of spoiled children." To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women's Lib is merely "a playtoy for middle-class white women." At first reading, Encore's broadside sounds too extreme to reflect the outlook of more than a few blacks. But in interviews with TIME correspondents across the nation last week, many black women agreed with the magazine...
Even the more important Women's Lib causes, such as abortions on request or the Equal Rights Amendment, fail to stir the black community. To many blacks, explains Jean Noble, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, "abortion is genocidal, a method of limiting the black population. Muslim groups, for instance, say that the role of the black woman is to produce warriors for the revolution." Of the Equal Rights Amendment, Noble says, "I call it the liftin' and totin' bill. More than half of the black women with jobs work in service occupations...
...even more important cause of black alienation from Women's Lib may be the distrust, if not outright dislike, of many black women for white females. For one thing, black women are furious with whites for "stealing" their men, as evidenced by the rising total of marriages between black men and white women. Besides, black women see no reason to believe that a society in which white females held positions of power would be any fairer to blacks than a system dominated by white males...
...dialogue going," nevertheless demands to know "how a liberated woman can rush to a meeting leaving her black maid at home to look after the children, get there and look around and ask, 'But where are all our black sisters?' " Editor Lewis sees the Women's Lib movement as nothing more than "a family quarrel between white women and white men." She cautions that outsiders who interfere in family disputes "always get shafted when the dust settles...