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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
Heckler defends Reagan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Margaret Heckler, one of three women in President Reagan's Cabinet, defended the president yesterday as "sensitive and sympathetic" to women's issues and said his political problems with females were due to misperceptions.
Heckler said Cabinet members and other high-ranking administration officials were partly to blame for not helping women succeed in their accomplishments for women.
"The president is sensitive and sympathetic to women and supportive in very important ways," she said on CBS "Face the Nation."
"If all women in America saw
President Reagan at close range as I do, I think they would feel they had a very sympathetic president," she said.
"The misperception doesn't match many of the things the president has done," she said.
Heckler said Reagan's lower standing among female voters than among male voters, a problem known as the gender gap, can be improved if his administration starts doing a better job of publicizing his actions.
In her own department, she said, Reagan should be given more credit for his support of increased tax deductions for child-care costs and tax benefits for industries that offer child-care services.
He also is very involved in new efforts to force fathers to make their child support payments, she said.
Since the disease was discovered in 1981, there have been 2,094 reported cases and 805 deaths, the federal Center for Disease Control reported Friday.
On other subjects, Heckler attributed a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome to better monitoring and reporting by states.
Heckler said there had been no cases so far of medical personnel acquiring the disease because they treated AIDS patients. Some medical professionals have refused to treat AIDS victims.
Equality plan assailed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department official with a key role in President Reagan's highly touged program to eradicate sexually discriminatory behavior, yesterday the president had "reached on his commitment" to women
"Frankly, my dear, I don't think Ronald Reagan gives a damn," Barbara Honegger said.
Honegger, director of the attorney general's Gender Discrimination Agency Review project, wrote a scathing article for The Washington Post's opinion page. She complained that her project, Reagan's alternative coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment, has turned out to be a sham.
HONEGGER said her project was relegated only to listing troublesome laws, and that she had been told she has no authority to suggest changes.
"Her job isn't to make recommendations." White House spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters in Santa Barbara where the president is vacationing.
"We can be very proud of our record," Speaks said, noting Reagan's appointments of women and claiming credit for the White House for gender changes proposed by Sen. Bob Dole, R.Kan., in 100 laws that contradicted controversial" laws that "won't make a major difference if they're changed anyway."
Appearing later on NBC News, Honegger said the White House had
done nothing with the 114 statutes she sent them. She said most of the suspect laws were sent to the White House more than a year ago.
"There is no commitment there. We're just not talking about priority 25, we're talking about priority in the gutter." she said.
Asked if there would be reprisals against Homegaze. Speakers would only answer 'no'.
Justice Department spokesman Tom DeCairt called Honegner "a disgruntled job seeker" who exaggerated her role in the administration's program to improve his employment. He planned to leave the job soon. Honegner could not be reached for comment.
No change in 3 years
She said in her article that her project had submitted three lists of suspect laws to the White House during the last three years, but "not a single law has been changed." Honegger concluded that the president had not kept his promise to change discriminatory laws and regulations.
"He has reneged on his commitment," she wrote.
The charges come at a time when Reagan is trying to improve his standing with women. Polls show women are much more critical than men of the president's policies, a difference known as the "gender gap." Advisers fear it could cause Reagan problems if he seeks re-election.
on Legal Equity for Women, expressed surprise at Homegger's account and said she "has been quite excited with the progress of the project."
Reagan opposes passage of the ERA and has said that women could be better protected by simply changing federal and state laws that treat women differently from men. In a speech two weeks ago to the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, he identified the project as his primary initiative to fight sex discrimination.
LINDA MCCANN, spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Task Force
When she started work with the Reagan team even before the 1980 election, Honeygeer wrote, "I believed that the people who they said they would do those things."
BUT SHE since has become disillusioned. Her project is barred from proposing solutions to the problem laws it finds, she said. A working group directed by a presidential assistant was tasked with investigating the law was disbanded by the White House after its first round of recommendations, she said.
In addition, she said, she was directed not to look at laws involving abortion or pregnancy. Last summer, a presideia助教 "angrily told me that abortion and pregnancy have nothing to do with women's rights and therefore were to have no part in the identification effort." she said.
A second part of the antidiscrimination program was to weed out troublesome laws at the state level. But all that has resulted, she said, "is a pretty booklet listing what the 50 states had already done."
Group offers counseling, crisis line Shelter aids battered women
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
When the woman was two months pregnant, her former husband dragged her by the hair for two blocks to punish him, allowing our car to run out of gas.
Every time she tried to get up, she said, he kicked her back down.
She lived through similar incidents for two and a half years, until a neighbor told her to seek refuge with Women's Transitional Care Services in NY.
"It if wasn't for the shelter, I would not have been able to make the changes necessary in my life," the woman, a 29-year-old KU student. "My children and I have made lots of progress in leaps and bounds that I would not have ever thought possible when I was married. WTCS built confidence in myself so I could live on my own without the man."
"We want people to realize that this occurs to all types of women," said Joyce Grover, a counselor at WTCs who spoke at a public information seminar at the Lawrence Public Library on Saturday. The seminar was titled "Violence Against Women — an Educational Experience."
The student, who requested that her name not be used, is one of hundreds of women and children whom the group has helped since it was founded in 1976.
"There seems to be a mis-
understanding of what affects
our mental health."
college students to professors' wives, to people who are to those who are well off, or to anyone
Grover mentioned another KU student who sought help from the shelter. The woman lived with a boyfriend who attempted to control her life by beating her and withholding her money and car keys.
Another beating victim, the wife of a KU professor, lived through her husband's abuse. The couple had moved to Lawrence from a foreign country and the wife had no friends or family to turn to, Grover said.
So the woman sought help at the shelter for battered women.
WTCS is option
"We want to increase the public awareness about this growing problem and let women know that an option is available to them." Grover said
The group operates a 24/ hour crisis line and provides up to 30 days shelter for battered women and their children of pregnant women who have no where to go.
The center supports the women with food, shelter and counseling to help them cope with the trauma. Counselors use practical planning for the future.
Nationwide, 1.8 million women are battered and abused in their homes, according to statistics provided by WTCs. The shelter last year served 262 women and children and handled 600 crisis calls.
*One out of five women will be battered at some time in their lives.
The statistics also show that:
- About 30 percent of all violent crimes in Kansas stem from domestic violence.
*Spouse abuse is an indication that child abuse also occurs in a family
Since January, WTCS has had a 67 percent increase in women who seek shelter and a 57 percent increase in crisis calls.
"We're not sure whether this indicates an upward trend in domestic violence or whether the public is more aware of our services," Grover said.
Because the shelter has discovered that 85 percent of battered women have children below the age of 5, the shelter is trying to recruit child advocates to act as friends and work with children one on one.
The shelter has about 20 active volunteer advocates, three full-time employees and two part-time employees. The shelter also lower the crisis line and run the shelter.
"We're interested in increasing public awareness of our services, of our need for funds, and we're also trying to recruit volunteers for our adult and child advocate programs for training sessions in September."
Those who need of help or wish to become volunteers should call the WTCS 24/hr crisis line at 841 6371. Or visit Office B5C 633, Lawrence 60944.
Another session of "Violence Against Women" - An Educational Experience' is to be presented at the Lawrence Public Library on Saturday.
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