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Wednesday, October 23,1974
Woman engineer builds equality
By ROXI TAYLOR
Reporter
Job opportunities for women in the engineering fields today are equal to those of men, according to Dale Stratton, an engineer and engineering development group of DuPont.
Stratton, who works for the photo products division of DuPont at the Parlam, N.J., plant, told the Society of Women Engineers yesterday that there had been a spike in women in the past, but at least discrimination at larger companies no longer existed.
"I've had handicaps in reaching my present position because I'm a woman, but I don't have a handicap," she said.
Stratton has been in the industry 20 years. An early problem she said she encountered was with former "protective laws" of New Jersey.
The laws established many hours a woman could work, she said, and were practical "back when women worked at jobs of harder labor than they do now."
Straton said that at the time she graduated from college in 1854, there weren't many job offers for women going into science either.
"Some companies wanted to hire me to make me a glorified secretary," she said. Stratton said she thought women who worked for the company member that communication was important.
"The better you get to know an individual, the better you can get along with them and can understand their needs."
But just because women were working in a man's world, she said she didn't mean that she was an expert.
"I don't feel like I have to act like a man to work with men," she said.
"If you enjoy being an engineer, be an engineer. If you enjoy being a chemist, be a chemist. And, if you enjoy being a housewife, be a housewife." she said.
Straton said she thought it was important for women to be what they want to be.
their engineering courses were still needed.
She said that even if the women in engineering never went into industry, the practice would have become normal.
their engineering courses were still needed. Straton's husband also works for DuPont, but she said this hadn't caused any problems.
She said she thought that a wife who had a stimulating career could either strengthen or weaken her.
"My husband has encouraged me and we have a very happy relationship," she said. "I love it."
The University Affirmative Action Board and Vicki Hamer, acting director of the Affirmative Action Office, will meet this morning to discuss the preces of the appointments filled by Bambrose Saricis, vice chair for academic affairs, Patton said.
issue a report if requested.
Possible violations hold up appointments
The two committees and Hamer will examine the precis to find out why Saricks decided to appoint two white men on a halftime basis to replace James Rosser, who was the only minority person in the central administration, Patton said.
She said she had a larger salary than her husband, but that if it didn't
Confirmation of the two appointments of secrecy request of seventeen affirmative action groups.
a big tissue.
"He keeps telling everyone, next raise
get, he's retiring," she said.
Stratton doesn't have any children and don't know of anyone who has taken off their shoes.
Confirmation of two appointments in the Office of Academic Affairs will be delayed about a week because of possible affirmative action guidelines violations, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Shankel asked yesterday he hoped the appointments of Edward P. Bassett, dean of the School of Journalism, as halftime associate vice chancellor and Ralph E. Christofersen, professor of chemistry, as halftime assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, could be confirmed within a week.
The University Senate Human Relations Committee, the University Affirmative Action Board, representatives of the Office of Minority Affairs and Shankel met the University President for affirmative action procedures used in the appointments of Bassett and Christofersen.
Bobby Patton, chairman of the Human Relations Committee, said his committee wouldn't take the initiative to issue a report on the subject, but his committee would
But, she said, in cases in which women don't work for many years, there are reasons to accept them.
According to William E. Hogan, associate dean of the School of Engineering, 48 out of 1,000 students in the undergraduate engineering school at KU are women this year.
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Conference to inaugurate initial Stouffer chair
tomorrow and a keynote address in the evening and a public reception at 8:45 p.m.
There will be a conference of mathematicians tomorrow and Friday in the Kansas Union to inaugurate the E. B. Stouffer Chair in Mathematics and to introduce Professor of G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics, as the first Stouffer Professor.
The conference will include a luncheon
evening and a public reception at 8:45 p.m. The professorship, which provides an annual award of $5,500, is named for E. B. Stouffer, who was chairman of the depart- mentaries, dean of the Graduate School and dean of the University of Kansas He died in 1965.
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