Word: melia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord." Others may have offered more elegantly reasoned defenses of American family life-as does Arlene Rossen Cardozo in her new book, Woman at Home; still others may be attempting more organized measures to help the housewife-as has Jinx Melia with her Martha Movement. But the huge success of Marabel Morgan's books (and the hostility of her critics) makes her a remarkable phenomenon...
...success-oriented society the cumulative effects of such treatment can be demoralizing. One of the few women so far trying to do anything organized for the millions of housewives is Jinx Melia, 40, who last year joined four other women in founding a national organization to give homemakers more status. Named for Martha, who did the household chores while her sister Mary listened to Christ expounding his wisdom (Luke 10:38-42), the Martha Movement so far has nearly 4,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries, and Executive Director Melia just returned last week from...
...Melia now lives in Burke, Va., with her engineer husband and two sons, aged 5 and 3, but before she quit to care for them she was a $15,000-a-year teacher in New York City. When she decided to go back to work again after a couple of years, she found herself applying only for jobs in the $8,000-a-year range, for which she was overqualified. This was not because of professional rustiness, or the need for more time at home, or even because teaching jobs were hard to find. Says she: "I had devalued myself...
...resolution, introduced after State Representative John F. Melia made a motion to reconsider the earlier resolution, avoids any specific mention of the UFW. It does, however, support the UFW position on the right of the farm workers to choose their own union in "free and fair" elections, and it condemns growers who force their workers to accept a union chosen by the grower alone...
...always supported the cause of the itinerant farm workers in Massachusetts," Melia said yesterday. "But there is nothing we can do for the California farm workers...