Women demand equality
Femmes fatales hit campus
By MARY QUINN
Kansan Staff Writer
Les femmes fatales are deadlier than ever in today's world of revolution, discussion and decision.
Women want equality and they're achieving it through irresistible femininity.
When women compete for opportunities with the masculine gender, they aren't necessarily giving up femininity, most women agree, but instead are working for a professional feminine attitude in the business world.
The status of KU women this fall reflects this trend toward equality as freshman women for the first time may choose whether to have residence hall closing hours. Men, traditionally, have had no closing hours.
A form of dissent?
KU coeds are wearing slacks to classes, parties and even formal dances. Is this fashion trend, along with the "no-bra" fad, a feminist cry for equal rights with men?
In fashion trends, the "ban the bra" move and pants-look at KU are banners of progressive women.
Although Suzie Adkins, Leavenworth junior and former Women's Liberation Front president, doubts that slacks on females signal a revolution against femininity, she believes women have discovered the comfort and flattering style of pants.
"Women aren't rejecting their femininity, but exerting their individuality," says Reagan O'Neill, Overland Park senior and Associated Women Students' president.
"Women aren't trying to attain the male standard, but establish their own appropriate female standard."
Women want higher educational advancement and financial assistance, she says. They want a career with the same opportunity-
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ties men have of administrative promotion and wage increase.
"The average woman in 1969, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, is married by age 21 and her youngest child is of school age by the time she is 30," Miss O'Neill says.
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Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, says women's dress is not a form of dissent, but arrogance toward the establishment.
Another KU coed sees the fashion trends as expressions of freedom.
"Women are wearing pants, but they certainly don't look masculine," she says. "Pantsuits are made of chiffon, silks and velvets—they look as feminine as ruffled organdy."
Many women's movements are working for equality, especially in wages, says Darrel Bigham, Harrisburg, Pa., graduate student. The progress of women is a product of the industrial revolution —loosening the family as a self-contained unit, he says.
The Kansas Fair Employment Act, says Emily Taylor, dean of women, doesn't cover women—only race, color and creed.
She says AWS is working to establish three changes in the Fair Employment Act. These include: effective minimum wage laws, equal pay for equal work and the word "sex" added to the employment act when clauses refer to non-discriminatory practices with regards to race, color, creed and sex.
"Women want to pursue goals of their own," says Miss Taylor, "and they want support from the men in their lives who must be secure in their own right.
"No woman can speak for all women and we don't try to. A woman should be what she wants to be," she says, "and not a product of dismaussion from her goal because of job insecurity or the lack of financial assistance to pursue the education required for her future."
Women are gaining in many areas of American economy. American Bar Association statistics show that women's enrollment since 1958 has gained 180 per cent—during a period total enrollment had raised only 61 per cent.
International Business Machines and General Electric report that women in management positions and employee relations have risen sharply in the past few years.
But in the political arena, women have been losing ground. The President's Cabinet has been void of female advice since 1955, and the number of women in both houses of Congress has dwindled
from 17 to 11 since 1960.
Marriage, salaries 50 per cent lower than men's and reluctance to enter a "man's profession," are factors women face in seeking equality.
Wearing pants may be comfortable dress for women, but confronting men for equal opportunities is not as easy as donning modes of dress.
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