Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students are demanding improvements in kitchen working conditions and an end to the wage differential between first cooks (women) and chefs...
...demonstrators maintained that the wage differential is a form of "male chauviaism." Ginny Vogel 70 told Britton, "According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this sexual discrimination is illegal." When she and other students asked Britton why all the chefs were men and all the cooks women, he said, "There's a long tradition of male superiority...
...added that he also favors the increase in admissions" of the disadvantaged majority women...
...demand that the $.90 differential between men and women cooks be abolished by raising the women's pay," the statement says. "Mrs. Bunting has refused to do this and attempted to justify the differential by claiming that men and women cooks do different work. The facts are that women cooks prepare the same meals and serve as many or more students as men cooks, and therefore should be paid the same wages...
...Wellesley women took part in Harvard's retreat in 1968, but 30 joined this year's retreat. Wellesley's Fellowship President, Ruth Ricsner, said, "Itis God working." She said many members had prayed last year and over the summer for increased activity in the fellowships...