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...Anne S. Ramsay, director of budgets and chairman of the Committee on the Concerns of Women (CCW) at Harvard-Radcliffe, says that many women on the Faculty feel uncomfortable. "There is tension, and it's based on gender." Although Ramsay is not a member of the Faculty, CCW includes many women professors. Many--especially junior Faculty women--have expressed their discomfort, saying they feel awkward when, for example, they walk into a department meeting that includes only men. "Women don't feel the camaraderie," Ramsay explains. "Men instantly feel comfortable with one another." Many women believe that the report...
Despite their criticisms of the report, most women praise the study for bringing an important issue to the Faculty's attention. As a result, many believe there is reason to be optimistic. The best thing about the report, Ramsay says, "is that it exists. It may engender a great deal of discussion. I think that can only be constructive because the more one questions what's been going on, the more we'll understand each other...
Sarah Weddington, Carter's special adviser on women, echoes what Ramsay believes. Presidential phone calls, Weddington explains, have often backfired, firming up those legislators already against the ERA. "In Florida, a state legislator got up and said, 'I just got a phone call from the President of the United Sates. But I don't listen to him. I listen to him. I listen to the voters of my district.' " And the voters said...
While Weddington remains optimistic that three states will ratify before the deadline, Ramsay is not. From her extensive trips into "enemy territory" to sell the ERA, Ramsay's impression is that many legislatures plan to "sit on the vote," to bury it by avoidance. So convinced is she that the amendment faces death that Ramsay has asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to set up a meeting to discuss the possibility of introducing a bill to allow for the indefinite extension of the ERA ratification on deadline...
...June 1982 deadline for the ERA. At odds over tomorrow's election and split over permanent matters of tactics and communication, they fear that the Illinois failure has factionalized women's groups beyond repair at a time when everyone agrees that feminists must unite as never before. Perhaps Ramsay sums it up best. For the women's movement to successfully implement its hopes, she says, "Feminists--all feminists, men and women--are going to have to learn to work together...