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Poll says gender bias still exists
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
A recent Gallup Poll found support for traditional women's roles on an international scale.
KU students dispute findings
The poll, which was conducted in 22 countries and surveyed 1,000 adults in each country, found that a persistent workplace gender bias existed even in the most highly developed nations where there has been a strong women's movement.
"As far as having a male or female boss, it wouldn't matter to me," said Marla Grein, Wichita freshman. "I've had really娇媚 female bosses as well as male bosses. It
But some KU students disagree with the findings and said gender roles related to the workplace were not important.
Jennifer Godfrey, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, also said it wouldn't make any difference to her if her boss were male or female.
"It would bother me if there were no female bosses there, because I'd hope to move up to a position like that eventually," she said.
The poll also asked women if they would rather be male. The results could be interpreted as a measure of women's satisfaction with their role in society.
Only 8 percent of American women would change their gender, while 20 percent of European and Latin-American women, and as many as 41 percent of Thai and Chinese women would prefer to be men.
"Id rather be a female if I could choose," Godfrey said. "Women have, in the past, always been seen as being less. But I really love being feminine."
Pei-Jen Chou, whose husband,
Chih Chin Pan, is a Taipei, Taiwan,
graduate student, said she also
"I'd rather be a female if I could choose...I really love being feminine."
Jennifer Godfrey
Kansas City, Kan. freshman
preferred being a woman, but that many Asian women wish to be men so they could be more powerful.
The poll also found that 62 percent of Americans favored the traditional one-income family and that people in most countries do not believe there is a major difference in intelligence between the two genders.
Barbara Ballard, director of the
Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she wondered how the gender roles in the workplace could still be called traditional.
Ballard said it was more a case of what most people were familiar with, rather than what they necessarily wanted to maintain.
"Now that so many women are going into all the traditionally male-dominated areas such as medicine and law, many of the roles are fading," Ballard said.
"But attitudes still need to change regarding the mind set of always having men in control."
The poll also found the strongest support for women as political leaders in the nations that have had women as national leaders. The U.S. poll results showed that 57 percent felt that the country would be better governed with more women in government.
"In the political arena, there are only 47 women in the House of Representatives out of over 400, and only eight women in the Senate," Ballard said.
Script writer and researcher to talk on pioneer filmmaker
Female movie maker was first in the field
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Alison McMahan, an expert on the first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy Blaché, will give a lecture about Blaché today as part of the University Theatre's celebration of 100 years of film.
The lecture is titled, Madam has her cravings: Cross-dressing in the comedies of Alice Guy Blache" and is from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art. The lecture is free.
McMahan is an internationally known researcher on Blache. McMahan is also a script writer and film producer.
McMahan's lecture will include a discussion of Blache's early experiments with synchronous sound
recordings. Blaché was one of the first filmmakers to experiment with synchronous sound.
"Blaché just happened to be there when everything was happening," McMahan said.
McMahan said she would show a couple of those films as well as some of her other silent films.
Catherine Preston, assistant professor of theater and film, said McMahan would provide audiences with a different perspective than speakers like Ken Burns, Michael Moore and Mike Robe who have visited the University.
"I wanted to be able to get a woman here who could talk about women in film," she said.
McMahan's visit is sponsored by the Center for International Programs and the Department of Theatre and Film.
McMahan will also lead a student workshop, Writing for Film and Television, on Saturday at Oldfather Studio, Ninth St. and Avalon Road.
Cross-dressing comedies
Alison McMahan will give a free lecture entitled Madam has her cravings: Cross-dressing in the comedies of Alice Guy Blaché.
Where: Spencer auditorium
When: today from 3 to 5 p.m.
Preston said the workshop would include outlining and developing characters and conflict in stories.
The workshop was filled in one day, which is a good indicator that there is a desire for this kind of thing at the University, Preston said. The University does not have a script writing class.
"It's a really wonderful thing that she was able to come here," Preston said.
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