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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 9, 1978
Status, needs of women ignored by administrators
By SUSAN MORGENSTERN
Staff Writer
University of Kansas administrators have ignored the status and needs of women employees, a representative of a women's employee advisory group said yesterday.
"Obviously, the concerns of women on this campus are not given top priority by the administration," Evelyn Swartz, chairman of the Women's Unclassified Advisory Unit.
Swartz referred to a lengthy list of recommendations that gave top gove to top management at the administrator.
The recommendations concerned areas in which the group thought women had not been treated fairly, such as Title IX implementation, affirmative action in hiring and salaries of University personnel, committee membership and evaluation salary increase procedures and the administrative associate program.
THERE HAS been no response to the challenge and no visible changes such as Swartz said.
"The only thing we can conclude is there has been no progress," she said. "The concerns are legitimate, they were fairly genuine, and the progress last year and we have had no response."
However, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, disagreed that no response had been made.
well trained and asked with them a number of times. I have recommended a careful study of salaries of women during our annual evaluations," he said.
Shankel said that some of the most qualified women did not apply for top administration positions when the positions became open.
SOME OF the items noted in the group's recommendations were:
- Women's athletics still suffer because of a lack of funds, second-class use of facilities, poorer salaries and the dominance of the men's athletic cor-
- Changes in the merit evaluation plan, which lead to salary increases for faculty members, are needed to combat the "old frog situation" where results result in lower salaries for women.
- Lack of progress in affirmative action goals are evident in faculty salary inequities, hiring of administrative personnel and the membership of committees at the University, school and departmental levels.
- Changes in the administrative associate program are needed if it is to meet its goal of preparing women and minority members for top administrative positions.
THE REPORT also said, "Hardly any action is considered or a decision made that does not involve or have ramifications with affirmative action. Yet its office's representative is not present at most top level decisions. It does not influence the affirmative action post whether utilization of services would be increased."
in the office.
Bonnie Hütte, director of the office of
affirmative action, said that the charge still
was unchanged.
and Shankel disputed the charge that an affirmative action representative was not committed to the program.
"I THINK that most top level administrative decisions are made in the Chancellor's office. She (Ritter) is a member of the Lawrence campus advisory group and has the opportunity to participate in many decisions," he said.
But the Women's Unclassified Advisory Unit does not think administrators have been responsive to their recommendations and the topic of the group's scheduled Thursday meeting is 'The Condition of Women' Unclassified Women No Progress.
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