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...well qualified. Heidi Fiske, vice president of Institutional Investors Systems, presides over a course entitled "How to Leverage Your Talents into Working for Yourself or Starting Your Own Small Business"; Lynn Caine, who wrote the best-selling autobiographical Widow, teaches "The Widow." All this and more is available at Womanschool, a newly opened institution designed to teach women how to cope in a male-dominated society...
Established in classrooms rented from Manhattan's tony Finch College, Womanschool is the invention of petite, intense Elaine First Sharpe, 38, an assistant professor of English at coeducational Jersey City State College. After eleven years at Jersey, Sharpe decided that many women lack self-confidence. "They don't like themselves," she says. What they need to boost their selfesteem, she feels, is to learn more skills. With her husband Donald, 40, an associate law professor at Fordham, she took a small ad in the New York Times last year to recruit female teachers for an informal school that...
...Accredited. Womanschool is nonprofit and not accredited. Tuition is $60 for the ten-week courses, and as low as $25 for a six-session lecture series. So far the Sharpes have met the original costs of about $7,000 out of their own pockets. Says Sharpe: "I haven't bought clothes for my daughter for a year." They are applying to foundations and the Federal Government for help...
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