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Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
LIBRARY
IS '75 THE YEAR?
It's been a long fight, with
its roots in the suffragette
GWU
movement, but advocates of a
WOMENS
constitutional "rights" amend-
WOMEN
ment now sense victory.
SHIDENIS L'IBERATION
Backers of equal rights for women
now see 1975 as the year in which a 27th
amendment will be added to the U.S.
Constitution, guaranteeing equality un-
SECO1
der the law for both sexes.
CLAS
Thirty-four States have passed it; four
more are needed to give it the necessary
three-fourths approval.
A big breakthrough for equal-rights
advocates came on February 3 when
North Dakota's House of Representa-
tives approved the amendment by a
Today's demand by women is that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied
vote of 52 to 49. The State Senate had
or abridged. About 75 organizations support such a guarantee in the U,S, Constitution.
earlier ratified the measure, 28 to 22.
A year ago many supporters of the
well as women's consciousness-and
possible in Missouri, Illinois and North
amendment were gloomy about its
consciences about women's rights."
Carolina by spring. Other targeted
chances of final ratification. Then the
She pointed to a Gallup Poll conducted
States include Arizona-a State where
outlook was brightened by the results of
last October which showed that, given a
six anti-ERA legislators were defeated
the election's last November which
chance to vote, 79 per cent of the
by challengers who favor ERA-South
changed the complexion of some of the
electorate would favor the amendment.
Carolina, Florida, Indiana and Nevada.
16 State legislatures that have yet to
There are, other factors which sup-
Oklahoma was also a targeted State, but
approve the amendment.
porters say will aid the drive this year.
the Oklahoma House in late January
Ratification of the amendment got off
The AFL-CIO, after straddling the
defeated a motion to ratify by a vote of
to a fast start in 1972, the year that
fence, endorsed the amendment late in
51 to 45.
Congress passed it and sent it along to
1973. The National Federation of Busi-
The 16 States which have not ratified
the States. That year 22 States approved
ness and Professional Women's Clubs
the ERA are Alabama, Arizona, Arkan-
ERA, followed by 8 in 1973 and only 3
has raised $250,000 to aid ratification
sas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,
last year. The deadline for ratification is
this year,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada,
1979.
Some of those funds have been used to
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Caro-
The amendment, if ratified, would
hire a political consulting firm-Bailey,
lina, Utah and Virginia.
affect federal, State and local laws, not
Deardourf & Eyre-to help formulate
Actions on rights. Meanwhile, the
private actions. In the last two years,
strategy in key States. That strategy was
battle to end discrimination on account
opponents of the ERA lobbied strongly
to target 10 States where ERA groups
of sex is encountering rising success at
against the amendment in State legisla-
believed passage possible in 1975.
both the State and federal levels. Recent
tures with a degree of success.
In addition to the favorable results in
actions by Congress and the U.S. Su-
Grass-roots battle. But before the
North Dakota, ratification is thought
(continued on next page)
1974 elections, supporters of ERA had
formed coalitions-nearly 75 groups
In World War Hdays, the suffragettes marched to demand the right to vote for women.
support the amendment-to work for
Their victory was written into the Constitution in 1920 as the Nineteenth Amendment. 49
election of those favoring passage.
BROWN BROTHERS
In a study of election results in nine
key States where ratification was pend-
ing, the League of Women Voters found
that 52 per cent of 1975 legislators
VOTE
supported the amendment while 28 per
cent were in announced opposition. In
those States, 30 anti-ERA incumbents
were replaced by amendment backers,
and only one pro-ERA legislator lost to
an antiamendment challenger.
Ruth Clusen, president of the League,
said the ERA coalitions "raised men's as
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 17, 1975
THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1976
The Heroine of the Stat
By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 5 - Mere men-
e Department's Women
tion of the name Alison Palmer produces
CAUTION
an immediate groan from some-but then
there are those others who call her a
designed to hire women at the middle
pioneer, a heroine, not a troublemaker.
level of the service. Seven women have
Many of the policy changes that have
taken place at the State Department affect-
human beings here
qualified.
In the past, women were not able to
ing women have been attributed to her.
take dependents abroad, although men
She was the first to attack the estab-
at the same rank were supplied with
lishment in a meaningful, viable way,"
housing for families. Georgian Prince, Fed-
said one State Department employee, "and
eral women's program coordinator, who
you always take the risk of personal
has served abroad with her mother as
damage-she could have been fired. "
a dependent, said, "There was a time
Miss Palmer has not confined her fight
when women with dependents were dis-
to practices in the State Department. She
couraged from a Foreign Service career-it
also has taken on the Episcopal Church
was considered a problem at best, but
and was ordained last September to the
that has all changed. Social prejudices
Episcopal priesthood in an unsanctioned
have been pretty much swept away, and
The New York Times/Choster Higgins Jr.
From left, Jill Robinson,
Marya Mannes, Erica Jong.
'W omen Writers'- - or Just 'Writers'?
By NAN ROBERTSON
er whose prolific output includes
On feminism and the women's
The lightning rod at a symposium
"Man's World, Woman's Place."
movement:
of women writers, which drew a warm
On women writers, these were
Marian Hoberman. "My imagina-
and lively audience out of the pelting
some of the opinions to emerge:
tion has been freed by the women's
rain to Lincoln Center, was, undenia-
Miss Ozick, "Literature universal-
movement."
bly Cynthia Ozick.
izes, it does not divide." She derided
Florence Howe. "People have been
Miss Ozick, winner of the 1976 O.
the notion of separate male and fe-
silenced because of sex, race and
Henry Award for short fiction and
male psychologies, ideas, or experi-
ence
by
one of the panelists
Week Ending January 24, 1976
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By Robert W. Merry
an educational one-to put forth his
triotism, has little patience with the rad-
LZ
FROM OSMKOSH, Wis.
view of the American Revolution as the
ical "elitists" of the antiwar era. "I
Jui
Hew sat such
prototype of what's needed today. Of
want to be charitable to the '60s," says
T
HIS IS Oshkosh," exclaims Ted
course, this interpretation relies on a
Rifkin, "but the radicalism of those bel
Howard, his voice a mixture of
particular view of the American Revo-
days had an Alice-in-Wonderland, mum-
incredulity and ecstasy as he
lution, and that's a matter of consider-
bo-jumbo, hocus-pocus quality. I mean,
stands amid the pandemonium of Albee
able debate-whether it was largely a
there you had young people from Scars-
Hall at the University of Wisconsin's
social revolution or merely a political
dale, who had everything they had ever
Oshkosh campus. This isn't Harvard
one. But Rifkin and his regulars don't
wanted in their lives, going around call-
or Dartmouth or *Yale. It's Oshkosh,
let that debate interfere with their fa-
ing themselves Americong and spelling
and it just might be Ronald Reagan's
vorite sport-drawing parallels between
America with a K and hating their
last campus appearance."
today's situation and that of the 1760s
country. I had a different view of revo-
Ted Howard is a leading organizer
and 1770s.
lution: I thought it should be based
for the Peoples Bicentennial Commis-
After the Massacre
on pride in our country, not debunking
sion, and he was sent here from Wash-
our country."
ington,-B.C., -to organize a political am-
The campus agitation of the 1960s,
bushi for Reagan's Presidential cam-
for example, is compared to the tax re-
That pride came easily for Rifkin,
paign. Right now it's 12:40 p.m., just 20
volts of the 1760s. The East India Co.
who grew up in a Southwest Chicago
enclave between a mostly Catholic,
minutes before Reagan's scheduled
becomes the Eighteenth Century equiv-
appearance, and it looks as if the Re-
alent of our multinational corporations.
working-class area and the upper-mid-
publican candidate might be riding into
And one commission activist even sug-
dle-class Beverly area. "I grew up on
a box canyon with Indians on every
gests that the calm on the campuses
rugged individualism," says Rifkin,
whose father ran a small plastic-bag
DD
ridge.
since the 1970 Kent State shootings cor-
responds to the period of relative tran-
plant. "My parents believed in the
A Costar From Yesteryear
quility that followed the 1770 Boston
American success story, the business
Howard's stated mission is to "laugh
Massacre.
ethic."
Reagan right out of Wisconsin," and
And, in the Rifkin view, America's
After high school, where Rifkin
the 1,580 students crowding into Albee
businessmen are our Tories. His philoso-
quickly rose to student prominence in
Gymnasium are getting a good chuckle
phy, a distillation of just about every
several areas, he received an econom-
out of the props provided by Howard's
antibusiness attitude ever generated in
ics degree from the University of
Pennsylvania. then ran off 14 oursur
'Pro-Life' Backer
Is Under Attack
On Fund-Raising
By Isabelle Shelton
Washington Star Staff Writer
The National Abortion Rights Ac-
tion League today filed a complaint
with the Federal Election Commis-
sion seeking to deny federal match-
ing funds to anti-abortion presiden-
tial candidate Ellen McCormack, on
grounds her campaign "used decep-
tive practices and violated the feder-
al election laws in soliciting funds."
NARAL President Sarah Wedding-
ton, who argued the landmark pro-
abortion case before the Supreme
Court three years ago, told a Capitol
Hill press conference that McCor-
mack's campaign "has made a
mockery of the 1974 amendments to
the Federal Election Campaigns
Act."
"Her candidacy and campaign
techniques demonstrate a pattern to
Ellen McCormack
deceive potential contributors by
Anti-abortion candidate
failing to disclose without ambiguity
that she is soliciting funds for her
Sources said that the local church
presidential candidacy and not for
the anti-choice movement (those op-
Weddington referred to is Queen of
Apostles Catholic Church at 4329
posed to freedom of choice on abor-
tion),' Weddington said.
Sano Street, in Alexandria. Spokes-
"We also believe there has been a
men for the church could not be
direct institutional involvement of
reached immediately for comment.
the Catholic church in the cam-
David Fiske, press secretary for
païgn," she declared, She said
the Federal Election Commission,
NARAL is calling upon the FEC to
said the issue would be resolved
"use its resources to conduct an
quickly, because questions such as
investigation of this."
NARAL is raising "would automati-
cally have been checked" when FEC
NARAL HAS BEEN told that ap-
staff members conducted a field
peals for "pro-life" contributions for
audit in McCormack headquarters in
McCormack have been made in
New York State last week.
Catholic churches, one of them in the
To qualify a candidate for match-
Northern Virginia area, Weddington
ing funds, Fiske said, the law re-
said. She appealed to "persons who
quires that checks must be made out
have evidence or knowledge of such
to an individual, not a committee,
involvement" to come forward with
"Checks made out to a committee
affidavits, sending copies to the
are not matchable, by definition," he
said.
FEC.
See ABORTION, A-6
24
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family/style
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1976
Women From 30 States Carry the
E.R.A.FighttotheLandofLincoli
By WILLIAM E. FARRELL
steps of the State Capitol to
ofupport from a broad spec-
delivered in front of a con-
Special to The New York Times
Washington and other points
pressure the Illinois State
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 16
trn of politicians ranging
templative statute of Lincoln
east. They went by train to
For
Senate to become the 35th
-About 8,000 supporters of
frm Presidential aspirants
that looked down on the
Chicago and then by bus to
state to ratify the amend-
the equal rights amendment
sch as Gerald Ford, Repre-
speakers.
Springfield.
ment.
from 30 states-from Maine
sntative Morris K. Udall of
"I'm not a betting woman
The train journey was, in
part, a tribute to a cross-
EQRO
Supporters contended that
to California-convened in
rizona and ex-Gov. Jimmy
but I've got a $20 bil here
country rail caravan made
passage in Illinois could have
front of a statue of Abraham
arter of Georgia to Senators
that says that the polit of
by suffragists in 1917 when
YES!
a spillover effect on neigh-
Lincoln here today and rallied
ich as Charles H. Percy, Re-
that plane ain't no woman,"
they were seeking the right
boring states like Indiana and
for passage of a 24-word-long
Missouri, which have not yet
ublican of Illinois, and Hu-
said Sheli Lulkin, a teacher
to vote.
addition to the United States
acted on the amendment.
ert H. Humphrey, Democrat
and union official, as the
Sally Campbell, a member
Constitution that one speaker
A total of 38 states are
Minnesota.
crowd roared.
of the New York Library
called part of the "second
The Lincoln figure was
Guild, a branch of the Amer-
needed before the E.R.A. can
A Plane Overhead
American revolution."
become the 27th amendment
draped with a banner em-
ican Federation of State,
While the crowd was
County and Municipal Em-
The gathering was a good-
to the Constitution. Ratifica-
blazoned with the simple
Associated Press
Betty Ford
2/21/75
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Most letters
to Mrs. Ford
oppose ERA
WASHINGTON (P)-Betty Ford's mail
at the White House is running 3 to 1
against her outspoken support of passage
of the Fruel A
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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1976
Marvin Schmalzried (left) is
the kind of conservative
one thinks of as typically
American, and as being a
bit set in his ways. When
his 27-year-old daughter
Darlene (center) sued the
White House for $100,000
charging sex discrimination,
he was a bit shook up. Now
he is beginning to be proud
of her. With them is Tim
C. Ford, Darlene's best
friend. They are picknicking
in Lafayetto Paark, across
the street from the
White House.
The education of a hio
who never stopped growing
By ANN WOOD
"Success or failure was determined entirely by
the news summary for the President. At one point,
father's teeth on edge. But Marvin can also get
the individual himself; structural barriers simply
she even had to fire one person for sloppy work
some amusement from Tim's problems with his
did not exist."
who had been making more than she. Darlene was
-Doris Kearns, "Lyndon Johnson and
own 17-year-old daughter, from a previous mar-
convinced the work she did was worth a higher
riage. Tim did not want her to travel across coun-
the American Dream."
salary. (Bear in mind that Elizabeth Ray says she
try with an older man, who happened to be 22,
made $14,000 a year for doing nothing in a Capitol
and Marvin kidded him:
will
Jeanne Ford's M. Holm Record Post 10/19/76 Pg A=19
On Women's Rights
In her op-ed piece of Oct. 4, Ellen
hope to see it a part of our Constitution
Goodman has taken leave of her nor-
before too long." He went on to point
mal good senses to cast unwarranted
out that "injustice cannot wait upon
aspersions on both the President and
politics, nor upon the lengthy public
the First Lady of the land.
discussion which has already delayed
The thrust of her article is that by al-
ratification of this constitutional
lowing her picture to appear on cam-
amendment. The time to act is now."
paign posters with her husband, Mrs.
He announced that he had directed
Ford is trying to mislead moderate and
the Attorney General to plan a sweep-
liberal voters into thinking that she has
ing review of all federal laws and regu-
some mustio influence hus
lations that may disoriminate on the he
star 8/29/76
Magazines
HELEN GURLEY BROWN. who was
at that initial editors' meeting, issued a
statement of her own, evidently to clear
up the muddy waters surrounding libera-
Team Up to
tion and. the pneumatic "Cosmo girl"
image. "We've always admonished the
Cosmo girl not to be a parasite, not to
live off a man, not to be kept," she an-
Back ERA
nounced. Her magazine carries a thor-
ough article entitled "ERA and You."
Indeed, Brown has always advocated
independence. It's what the magazine
Favorable Articles Stem
frequently suggests be done with it that's
confusing - like taking blue collar lovers
for kicks and explaining why tall, short,
From Effort to Air Issue
fat, Southern, WASP or Jewish men
See ERA, C-3
By Randy Sue Coburn
Washington Star Staff Writer
Pick up a July issue of True Romance,
True Love or True-anything magazine.
(Stick it inside a copy of Scientific
American if it makes you feel better.)
Within are all the articles you might
L.A.Tines
Betty Friedan's
New Mystique:
Middle-of-Road
BY BETTY LIDDICK
Times Staff Writer
Betty Friedan sat in the Green Room of the TAV. Cele-
brity Theater on Vine St. in Hollywood, She drank white
wine on the rocks, bounced her right foot in time to some
inner rhythm and, from time to time, pressed an index
finger to the middle of her forehead. "Waiting gets me
nudgy," she said, using the Yiddish word for edgy.
She watched the television monitor as Merv Griffin in-
troduced Betty White and Ann Miller. Betty Friedan was
to be the last guest, after Phyllis Newman. In the back of
the room, three models from the fashion show that led off
the program began talking loudly. People wandered in to
use the phone.
Ms. Friedan strained to hear the monitor. Betty White
talked about changes in language, the seeming demise of
the word "mankind." Ann Miller told how she likes hav-
BETTY FRIEDAN
on to sex-role-revolution."
Times photo by Harry Chase
ing doors opened for her. "Men are supposed to be the
strong ones," she said.
At one point Griffin said the "next lady" probably
would have more to say on similiar subjects.
"Is it all right to call her a lady?" Betty White asked.
A few people snickered. It was as though they expected
Betty Friedan to charge on stage with a trail of burnt
bras and trashed Crockpots in her wake. Actually, she
was worried about making an entrance without tripping.
Nobody quite understands Betty Friedan.
To Heartland Americans, who tune in to Merv or line
up for Friedan lectures and never read the Village Voice,
she is the wild-eyed radical, the quintessential symbol of
women's liberation. (She herself has stopped using the dis-
paraged term and focused on the broader issue of "sex-
role revolution.")
To leaders of the organized feminist movement, such as
the National Organization for Women-which she found-
ed in 1966-she7ie a conservative, clinging to the middle
class, while they move "out of the mainstream into the re-
volution."
The truth, as it is for anyone, is that Ms. Friedan is not
so easily categorized. The day before the Griffin show she
had considered the question of her own liberation and ad-
mitted, after an uncharacteristic pause, "It's not complete.
It's so hard to liberate one's self from self-denigration,
from the scars of dependericy, from the scars of evasion of
Please Turn to Page:10, Col. 1
and
The Schlafly
View of ERA,
Liberation
Phyllis Schlafly is an author, commen-
tator, political activist and prominent
opponent of the Equal Rights Amend-
ment and women's liberation groups.
She was interviewed by Washington
Star Staff Writer Judy Flander. In this
space tomorrow, former Representative
Martha Griffiths - who largely takes
the opposite view on these issues -
will be interviewed.
Question: What do you make of the
recent setbacks of the Equal Rights
Amendment and the defeat of the
state equal rights amendments in
New York and New Jersey?
Mrs. Schlafly: I think they show
that despite the fact that the propo-
nents had nearly 100 percent of the
press on their side, and despite the
fact that they had nearly 100 percent
of the politicians who cared to com-
mit themselves on their side, never-
theless the voters recognized ERA as
a fraud, and they're against it. They
recognize it as a takeaway of
women's rights; they recognize it
won't do anything good for women,
and so they' against it.
do you feel that if women
got legal uny equality, say in New York,
it would take away their rights?
A: The New York state support
law is a beautiful law. It says the
husband must support his wife, and
the husband must support their
minor children under age 21. It's per-
fectly obvious that when you apply
the ERA to that law, it becomes im-
mediately unconstitutional, and it
knocks it out. So you have taken
away the right of the wife to be sup-
ported and to have her minor chil-
dren supported. Obviously, this is an
attack on the rights of the wife and
on the family. Now, if there's been a
divorce, she isn't his wife anymore.
The principal thing that ERA does is
to take away the right of the wife in
an ongoing marriage, the wife in the
home.
Q: Do you think that that is the
reason men support their wives, be-
cause it's the law?
A: Yes, I do. Because it is the duty,
and I think duty is an honorable
word I think when men get married,
they know that they on the
duty of supporting their wives.
Q: Do you think that women today
really are getting married to be sup-
ported?
A: Well, even if you think that in
the future the law should be changed,
I think it is a gross invasion of the
property rights of women in existing
marriages to come along and say,
"Now as a new principle of law - no
matter that you went into marriage
10, 20, 30, 40 years ago, thinking that
the marriage contract meant a defi-
nite relationship - too bad, sister.
You're on your own now." And that's
what they're saying.
Q: You see it happening that the
wife at some point would have to sup-
port the husband?
See SCHLAFLY, C-14
L.A.Times
ERAmerica-
an Umbrella
for Equal Rights
BY MARLENE CIMONS
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-At one point, while the President's
Commission on International Women's Year (PCIWY) was
voting on dozens of recommendations, commission mem-
ber Alan Alda turned to presiding officer Jill Ruckelshaus.
How, he wanted to know, could they make sure that,
the right people are told of the commission's proposals-
and act on them?
It was the kind of question frequently on the minds of
those who labor on such commissions, but one that is not,
always asked aloud.
"The problem with presidential commissions is that they
have neither purse nor sword," Jill Ruckelshaus said. "We
can make sure that the President gets these. We can
make them available to the public and hope something
happens on the strength of this commission. But I don't
think we can force them on anyone."
Alda, star of the television series MASH and co-chair->.
person of the commission's committee on the Equal
Rights Amendment, was not yet satisfied.
"Couldn't we be more aggressive and direct that the
commission make its recommendations to the appropriate:
people?" he said. "We can say, 'this affects you and we
would like you to know about it." That way, it gets the
word to them a little bit more surely than putting it all in
a book and hoping they all hear about it. It would be very
useful-especially if we carry all the weight we hope that
we do."
A Serious Limitation
Jill Ruckelshaus smiled. "I see all the staff people in the
room rolling their eyes back," she said. "But I think it can
be done if the commission members are all in agreement."
A vote was taken and it was so agreed.
The brief exchange illustrated what is perhaps the most
serious limitation on the work of groups such as Presiden-
tial commissions. Sometimes their ideas are ignored. "It
happens," Ruckelshaus said. "It happens."
"But look," she said, displaying a letter addressed to her,
dated several days earlier, and signed by Ford. "We cor-
respond with the White House all the time. The President
is very interested in what we are doing. His wife is very
interested. Maybe these will not be implemented in 1976.
Maybe they won't happen until 1977, or 1978. But they
serve to focus and define, and they encourage women to
bring pressure. Maybe it will be better with Ford. He's
shown in a lot of ways that he is trying very hard. But it
does take a long time."
The 39-member commission, appointed by Ford last
April, met for two days last week to discuss and vote on
these recommendations, proposals prepared during the
last nine months by 12 committees studying virtually ev-.
ery problem of American women. Within the next few
months, they will be assembled into a final report and
given to the President.
Ready for the Conventions
"We also want it ready to present to both political par-
ties at their national conventions," Jill Ruckelshaus said.
"I am also hoping that representatives from the commis-
sion will be able to testify at party·platform hearings."
(The work of the commission, incidentally, will not end
there. In legislation passed by Congress recently and
signed by Ford, the life of the commission has been ex-
tended until March, 1978, so that it can organize and con-
vene a national women's conference, to:be preceded by
regional conferences in each U.S. state and territory.)
What was perhaps the major development of the com-
mission meeting did not come in the form of a recommen-
dation. It was an announcement regarding ratification of
the Equal Rights Amendment, which the commission vot-
ed its top priority last Aprik Alda and Rep. Margaret
Heckler (R-Mass.), co-chairpersons of the ERA committee
of the commission, announced the formation of a new or-
Please Turn to Page 4, Col.1
First Lady St
Dos Angeles Times
BY MARLENE CIMONS
IEW
Times Staff Writer
ticks to Her Guns on ERA
WASHINGTON-They were an incredible sight, those
several dozen men and women who had come on this sun-
ny, but bitterly cold, afternoon-carrying hostile picket
PART IV
signs-to march along the sidewalk in front of the White
House.
mon Cause."As for the compint we consider them silly,
A demonstration along the spiked fence on Pennsylva-
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1975
nia Ave. is not an unusual event. It is a location where
out American history. What made these people unique
was the target of their protest. They were not, as one
NOTAL
scores en Voters, of Ford other the has been National commended Organization by the for League of Wom-
thousands of people, all with a cause, have come through-
PAY
of support. have either telephoned
many of whom women's rights groups Women and
JACK SMITH
would expect, out to castigate the President. This time, it
was his wife they were after.
Several hours earlier, upstairs in the second floor family
Coming to Terms
quarters of the Executive Mansion, First Lady Betty Ford
ERA
responsibility, "I am absolutely delighted that Mrs. Ford
taking a stand a strong sense of her own has a sense of
tional Ms. DeCrow chairperson towards of NOW, justice," "It's refreshing. said Karen citizenship, DeCrow, and na- is
had been told they were expected. She already knew
there had been criticism of her lobbying for ratification of
the Equal Rights Amendment, but she was not disturbed.
With Love
"I'm going to stick to my guns on this," she said to an
timable White House. there was House At value a the woman is added: moment, the First as "As President however, Lady a feminist, and speaking the it I would top, from woman be happiest the in White the if
aide. "I expected this. And I'm not bothered by it."
women." to have her speaking is, out of course, on justice of ines- for
In suggesting son-in-love or daughter-in-love as a work-
Not since Eleanor Roosevelt has there been a First Lady
able name for the person who is living with (but not mar-
so willing to take an unequivocal position on a controver-
lieve There that are a First even Lady opponents should of the amendment who be-
ent if she feels. not sit
ThE WASHINGTON POST
PEOPLE/SCENE
Friday, July 11, 1975
B3
R
American Women: 'Good Start'
By Dorothy McCardle
ahead, we have one more step right
Bacon, director of the U.S. Center for
now," she told Sampson, who had es-
International Women's Year.
corted her, together with others,
US.COM WY
First Lady Betty Ford walked
Mrs. Ford first passed the cases en-
owly and carefully through the ex-
through the exhibit.
closing the Declaration of Independ-
bition of the record of what Ameri-
"I hope we have the Equal Rights
ence and the Constitution, followed
n women have achieved in the first
Amendment by 1976. There would be
by a modern reminder of women's
0 years of the nation's history last
no better way to celebrate the na-
progress in the person of a woman vi-
ght.
Betty Ford, second
tion's Bicentennial anniversary than
olinist playing with a Marine Band
She stopped to read the fine print
with the passage of ERA."
combo in the lobby, where food and
from left, with Jill
ere and there and to laugh a little at
Sampson was ready for the chal-
drinks were being served.
Ruckelshaus, James
me of the old-fashioned pictures.
lenge. "If we do, we sign it right
On her way to the women's exhibit,
en she straightened up and gave
here," he said, glancing up at the tall
she was surrounded by women. chil-
Rhoads and Arthur
Wash Star
Rights Bill Optimism
3/11/2
A-3
For '75 Passage Fading
By Lyle Denniston
cused heavily on the abortion contro-
Washington Star Staff Writer
A proposal to guarantee equality of
Women's Rights
versy. The state has a large Roman
Catholic population, and opponents
rights of the sexes has only about a
have been attempting to make the
month left to become a part of the
Defeated in
argument that equal rights for
Constitution this year - and even
women is only a cover for a cam-
that depends upon a couple of
"surprises."
Indiana Senate
paign to ease abortion laws.
Missouri's legislature has adopted
Supporters of the proposed Equal
a new abortion law putting strict new
Rights Amendment, their optimism
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (UPI) -
controls on that medical procedure,
of late last year nearly gone now, say
The Indiana Senate defeated, 27-21, a
and most of its provisions have been
they must have some significant
proposal that would have ratified the
upheld in federal court. Such laws
gains in state legislatures by mid-
Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S.
might be under stronger threat, it
April or else forget it for 1975.
Constitution.
has been argued, if the equal rights
If the total of 38 state ratifications
The vote came on a proposal which
amendment were' part of the
would have substituted the wording
Constitution.
is not reached this year, the practical
nut
off
of the federal ERA for a resolution
Attempting to counter such argu-
to
the
question
ments. ERA supporters in the state
Betty Ford has alarmed some political
circles with her outspoken support of the
ERA. But others see her actions as a great
commitment.
Phyllis Schaafly
Rep. Gwen Cherry
Betty Ford
calls to legislators
will vote 'yes'
mustering 'no' votes
Oriental (
BOUGHT
SOLD
The ERA
TRADED
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262 S. University
Florida In Ratification Spotlight
Plantation
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rooms but also "all public
Missouri: The Missouri
tee to let him vote, The com-
WASHINGTON - Buoyed
schools, college dormitories
House passed it, 82 to 75, in
mittee then killed it 8 to 7.
by help from the First Lady
and hospital rooms" would
January. A tough Senate
and professional political con-
have to "desexigrated."
fight is expected with this
sultants, supporters of the
Since Congress approved
state a focus of the Stop
Equal Rights Amendment are
the ERA in the spring of 1972,
E.R.A. and the W.W.W.W.
pushing for final ratification
34 states have ratified it. Two
(Women Who Want to be
this year
of them - Nebraska and Ten-
Women) lobbying.
enters
the
spot-
Nevada: The House passed
46
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family/style
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1975
As New York Vote on Equal Rights Nears,
Two Sides Speak Out
Reg
74
Dights Amendment won't go to the polls
the voters who favor the state Equal
one recurring nightmare: that many of
"so is the side of right." Still, she has
of the polls are on her side and that
Sandra Turner says confidently that all
PRO
"home executive
term
By JUDY KLEMESRUD
"That's a woman who is wife, a mother
housewife however, in favor of
job, and is proud of it. She eschews the
mother of three who does not hold a paying
Annete Stern is a "fortyish" suburban
CON
amendment in what promises to be a spirited battle for votes in the R
chester Constitution. County general election of the
wife and mother, are heading the proponents and opponents
Two women, one a Manhattan political scientist and the other a West-
things, whether the proposed Equal Rights Amendment should be added to the State
On Nov. 4, voters in New York State will go to the polls to decide, among other
Note. ofs.
Week Ending February 7, 1976
A Cold Shoulder
Caręer Women Decry Sexual
Harassment by Bosses and Clients
By Mary Bralove
old mother of five discovered that the
job included fending off one of her su-
T
HE 40-YEAR-OLD bank executive
pervisors, a married professor who
faced a business problem for which
pawed her at every opportunity. Rather
no graduate course in management
than risk dismissal by telling him off,
had prepared her. No sooner had she
the woman, who is the sole support of
settled into her new job as the first
her family, kept quiet. ("I was taught
woman vice president of a Midwestern
not to hurt other people and to be po-
bank than the trouble started.
lite," she says ruefully.) Finally she
"I was hit from all directions at
complained to another supervisor. "He
once with several important bank
told me that any mature woman should
clients offering me their business on the
be able to handle it," she recalls.
condition that I go out with them," she
So she avoided the professor when-
recalls, asking that her name not be
ever possible. She began to dress dow-
used. "I was responsible for keeping
dily. She took to walking down stairs
and building up these large accounts. If
rather than risk meeting him in an ele-
they pulled out, my career was fin-
vator. She asked for a transfer to an-
ished."
other department with no success. The
At first she made light of the offers.
pressures finally took their toll. She de-
Then she ignored them. When these tac-
veloped severe neck pains. Nine months
after her promotion and in terrible
This article is reprinted from The
pain, she quit her job. Shortly thereaf-
Wall Street Journal.
ter, the neck pains ceased. When she
tried to collect unemployment compen-
sation, she says that state unemploy-
tics failed to stop the persistent phone
ment officials told her that sexual har-
calls at home and the suggestive re-
assment is not an intolerable job condi-
marks at business meetings, she lashed
tion.
out.
Corporate Apathy
"I sat down with each client and told
them that I make it a firm rule to keep
Despite the apparent extent of the
business separate from my social life,"
problem, sexual harassment isn't an is-
she says. "I told them that they could
sue that many corporations treat seri-
take their business to another loan offi-
ously. "With any other business prob-
cer if they wanted to."
lem they would have had people hard at
work researching and planning," says
It was a stratagem that worked.
Margaret Henning, codirector of Sim-
Though taken aback, the clients seemed
mons' graduate management program.
to accept her terms. Not one has taken
"But as far as we can tell, nobody is
his business elsewhere. Still, the experi-
doing anything."
ence left her shaken. "Nobody ever
talks about sexual harassment on the
Businesswomen concur, noting that
job," she says. "But when it happens to
employe counselors tend to chalk up
you that first time, it's frightening."
charges of misbehavior in high places
to back-office gossip. Co-workers, while
These days, the wall of silence sur-
rounding the issue of sexual harass-
outwardly sympathetic, often harbor
ment is gradually crumbling. Across
suspicions that the woman encouraged
such actions.
the country, small pockets of working
women are boldly speaking out and
Some women admit that they may
seeking protection against unwanted
unconsciously invite improper ad-
sexual advances by bosses or clients.
vances. A former analyst for Arthur D.
The incidents they describe are some-
Little Inc. recalls one incident not too
times as blatant as a proposition cou-
long ago that led her to examine her
pled with a promise of advancement
own behavior. While on a business trip
if accepted and the threat of dismissal
to New York, she and four vice presi-
if rejected. Or, the harassment may
dents of a client firm went out for a
take the form of a physical overture
business dinner. Returning to her hotel,
disguised as a friendly pat, squeeze,
she found that all four men had tele-
or pinch.
phoned her for a late-night date.
"I couldn't stand what was happen-
Casting-Couch Careers
ing to me," she says after a year of
Men, too, can be the unwilling ob-
psychological counseling. "Clearly my
jects of such advances, but it happens
behavior was way out of line."
less frequently. Eli Ginzberg, professor
Women's groups argue that anyone
of economics at Columbia University's
should feel free to rebuff advances
Graduate School of Business, explains:
without fear of reprisal. To win their
"Since men are in most of the positions
point, women are thrashing out the is-
of power, [sexual harassment] most of-
ten goes the other way."
sue in court, within their unions, and
among themselves,
Some women, of course, welcome
these unexpected attentions and turn
Toughest to Crack
them to their advantage. Corporate and
The legal arena is the toughest to
C
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
JESDAY, MARCH 11,1975
family food fashions furnishings
LINNO2.0
File
The state Equal Rights Amendment
ses a major question: Is it necessary
in view of the campaign for a Federa
E.R.A.? A hearing today advances
the controversy one step close
to a referendum in the fall.
State Equal Rights Amendmen
Senate Opens Hearings Today
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
with a pat on the head as part of
a feminist movement they now view
Special to The New York Times
U.S.Amendment:
as inevitably ongoing.
ALBANY, March 10-In addition to
But Senator Karen S. Burstein, the
Connecticut:
the campaign for a Federal Equal Rights
Nassau Democrat, says the amendment
Amendment to the Constitution, there
is of immense value. And at the hearing,
is a nearly identical state E.R.A. making
she adds, it is crucial that proponents
What It Will Do
its way toward the New York referen
not bog down in a sharp-tongued dia-
dum ballot this November, but not with-
logue with critics, but rather emphasize
What They Did
out a bit of controversy first here tomor-
the tangible value of the state amend-
row at a public hearing.
ment.
The problem with the state ER An
"It will give us a needed impetus,"
By
Both New Jersey and Con-
mainden names in marriage,
and its relatively brief statement of
the Senator said, "to. develop intelligent
A From statements made
rights due all New Yorkers, men and
necticut have approved the
but. women's rights groups
"Is the Equal Rights
marriage, divorce and support statutes.
pending Equal Rights Amend-
have attacked the proposai,
Amendment to be the Tonkin
in debate by Senator Birch
women, is not a lack of support among
It will help clean up the labor law.
Gulf Resolution of the Ameri-
Bayh Democrat of Indiana
legislators. A. few male solons, it's true,
It will give us a handle to correct
ment to the United States
contending that women now
can social structure?" former
and chairman of the Consti-
like to joke about the E.R A. as the
the insurance law's treatment of wo-
Constitution, but have act-
have such a right and that
Senator Sain
Ervin
tutional Amendments sub-
"earned run average bill, but this
med."
as
ed differently regarding their
such a law is unnecessary
asked three years voic
committee of the Judiciary
bit of chauvinism is a small private
What the amendment does basically
own state documents.
In another action, New
ing his opposition to the
Committee. The Equal
joke in comparison with the general
in the Senator's view, Mis to tell the
There has been no effort
Jersey's Supreme Superior
resolution, then before the
Rights mendment would
expectation that the state amendment
courts to be sex blind when talking
Congr which would ONE
will receive the final legislative approval
about human potential. The proposed
by the New Jersey State
Court in Mercer County is
not probit a State from
an en to sex discrimication
saying that the institution.
in the Senate to 'put it to the voters
amendment reads simply; "Equality of
Legislature to amend its
expected to rule this week
in terms of go ernaental TCH
of marriage would be prohib-
in November.
rights under the law shall not be denied
Constitution, with an equal
on whether a woman must
tion.
ited to men bartners It
The hitch, some legislators say pri-
or abridged by the State of New York
rights amendment, but in
re-register as a voter if she
The questi which at
would not prohibit a state
vately, is basically. a political circum-
or any subdivision thereof on account
Connecticut last November
marries. A ruling by 24 local
tributed to Yale Medical
from saying the institution
stance- that the opposition to E.R.A.
of sex."
School profestor net
has organized enough in the last year
voters overwhelmingly ap-
election board saying this is
of murriage would be prohib-
All nine women elected to the Legis-
lature-Democrats: and Republicans and
proved an amendment mak-
necessary is being contested.
gy, has since become just
Ited from two women part-
to necessitate R public hearing to vent
one of many missi that
ners All It says is that
some of the controversy.
conservatives-held- a news conference
ing discrimination on the
Bills Introduced
the amendure. mownked
if state legislature makes
By comparison, there was no hearing
today to stress their unity behind the
basis of sex illegal.
In Connecticut, the Gen-
a jurigment that it is wrong
last year when both houses of the
state E.R.A.
aroun country
The Connectiout amend-
The Scool the has
for mar to marry a man,
have been around this proposed
eral Assembly plans to de-
previous Legislature voted initial appro-
ment, which went into ef-
arisen derives are fact
then of >nast say it is wrong
val of the state amendment. Indeed,
amendment for as/long as I can remem-
bate bills to prohibit employ-
ber. said Assemblywoman Rosemary
fect last Nov. 27, reads: 'No
that here no way of
for is Werran to marry a
opponents have used that point this
ment discrimination basedion
knowing for are how the
if a state it
year in charging the whole amendment
R: Gunning, Conservative- -Republican of
person shall be denied the
marital status, to equalize re-
is water (Jor a woman to mar-
process has been. rushed and unfain
Queens. is not a one-sex: situation,
courts would internet the
equal protection of the law
tirement and pension pro-
ry then it must say
you know. There are many men who
amendment Than are
that is wrong for a man to
Less Controversy in First Year
hor be subjected to segrega-
suffer injustice as a result of their sex:
gram benefits, and to estab-
disputed. © Instional au-
tion or discrimination in the
thorities agr. EL that
many
However, Senator Bernard G. Gordon,
One critic-of the amendment, Annette
lish a state rape crisis analy-
Stern, president of Operation Wake-
exercise or enjoyment
sis
the legislative vistory that
of the E.RA. re-
the Westchester Republican who has
produced
the
women
called the hearing tomorrow in the
which desoribes itself as an
or her civil DD
The Connecticut Supreme
the
be
Boren branded the no
rs. Ford Urges Recruiting
complete lie" and wave
before television camera
an example of what
called "McSpadden's
and smear tactics.'
Black Women to Key Posts
He offered what he
was proof of positions o]
site to those attribute
going to lead the way and lead
him in the ad, and
luncheon before about 100
Dorothy Gilliam
women representing women's
the country down the path for
lenged McSpadden to
Wington Post
avow such tactics.
first organizational
volunteer organizations. The
equality-not only racial
Instead, McSpadden
m
before a group of pre-
women's two-day meeting to
equality but sexual equality.
sued a statement sa
discuss housing and food is
do
black women,
You have a great commitment
Boren has been embarras
sues, was sponsored by the Na
and I know you will
carry
not wronged. He conter
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Women's Rights Amendment May Hinge on Cnange in Carolina
These stirrings are beginning to be
probably has to do that this
into the legislature by redistricting
By Lyle Denniston
felt in the symbolically modern (Ed-
Keeping things quiet at the Odd Fellows Hall
is thought likely to give the tate
Washington Star Staff Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. There is a po-
North Carolina's role could be deci-
politics a more "liberal" cast. ER/
ward Durell Stone. designer) Legis-
litical gospel according to Herbert
lature Building here.
sive. The amendment has as good a
is a good test of that, since here-a:
Hyde, and it has a lot of believers.
A major test of whethe this is
Piedmont. Some will come for his
differ
from any other. You get the
elsewhere-it is seen as a libera
area, the Blue Ridge Mountains to
votes
nd use whatever influence you
chance of passing here as it has any-
"If the Piedmont flexed its power,
where. In fact, this is one of only four
cause.
something more than stirrings is
it could take over this state, it could
coming soon. The North Carolina
the west. Few, if any, will come from
got."
states definitely counted upon by its
These are reasons why, somewha
legislature is about to take up again
the "East," which up to now has
dominate the legislature,"
THE
SSUE, of course, is different,
supporters to go along
to its annoyance, North Carolina i
Now if that's a fact, and there are
the "equal rights for women amend-
always dominated state politics.
Closeted (literally) in the wee,
very
ferent, and Hyde leaves little
Should ERA falter here-particu-
beginning to look at the issue with
many in this state who think so,
ment to the U.S. Const itut And
barely functional office that each
doubt
at he, too, knows that.
larly now, after six weeks during
national audience watching.
North Carolina may be on the verge
that seems to be a pet ause in the
representative has near the House
The
ERA" is hotly controversial,
which it has stumbled more times
Howard F. Twiggs shudders a
of real change.
Piedmont.
Stirrings of progressivism are evi-
Herbert Hyde is count ng on that.
chamber, Hyde is willing to talk
nearl
erybody knows about it now
than it has gained elsewhere-the
that. Getting up from the desk in hi
about anything except his strategy
and cares, one way or the other, and
campaign for it just might be over.
law office high in the BB & T towe
dent through the 'Piedmont,' that
The "sage of the house,' as some of
his colleagues call the head from
for winning. He is the main sponsor
every te's reaction to it is crucial.
Besides, North Carolina is some-
downtown, Twiggs greets an out-o!
great mid-state crescent running
of the amendment in the House.
If it is to become part of the Constitu-
thing of a laboratory now for testing
state visitor:
from Raleigh around through Dur-
Buncombe County, thinks he has the
"This issue," say as he tugs at
tion, the mendment must win in four
such issues. The rising power of
ham and Greensboro and Winston-
votes for that amendme; and a
a curtain pull that won't work, is no
more tes-and, as a practical mat-
cities in a rural state, transmitted
See EQUALITY, A
Salem and down to Charlotte.
goodly number will come from the
THE NEW YORK TIMES, T
FEBRUARY 3, 1976
Lonely Crusader
family/style
C
Women
Battles Sexism
accepting
status,
Shirley I
She Sees in U.N.
"virtually
advancer
By NAN ROBERTSON
Shirley Hazzard seems
clerical P
a
ternational Women's Year
woman in perfect control.
that just ended "is the per-
evidence" de
Fastidious and cool, crowned
fect expression of the unau-
Its own pers
with smooth black hair, she
thenticity of the U.N. Secre-
of the organ
in her polished apart-
tariat, the supposed custod-
ces to its fem
ian of world standards while
ment high above Manhattan
Since 1970
it discriminates appallingly"
in "two little white
bat this hav
against its own female em-
rooms" on the island of Ca-
petitions sig
ployees.
pri, writing sensitive, tender
naires circul
She calls them the "domes-
stories about love and ulti-
tics" of the place. frozen
outside, th
Washington Puss Club
PEOPLE/FASHION
Pressing Inaugural Statements
By Jeannette Smyth
oath to Associated Press
the guacamole and said
International Women's Year
reporter Peggy Simpson.
"This isn't supposed to be a
Conference in Mexico City
and Dorothy McCardle
At the somewhat more se-
platform for somebody's
and succeeds as president
thing. This is supposed to be
the WPC's first male presi-
Washington
x
such
a
date gathering of the Ameri-
about Peggy."
dent, Ronald Sarro of The
ottlin' town.
can Newspaper Women's
Washington Star. The club,
Though they might better
Club (ANWC) Smithsonian
"It just goes to show.
now 56 years old, started
Secretary S. Dillion Ripley
said another woman, that
out as the Women's National
ave been building an ark,
got off a remarkable state-
you can't trust politicians no
Press Club.
he journalists and the pol-
ment of his own as the club
matter what sex they are."
Outgoing president Sarro
ticians and the culture vul-
inangurated
New N.C. Lawmakers
May Decide ERA Fate
Continued from Page 1C
publicly so much In North
rected ERA supporters to stay
Carolina and around the na
away from the General As
I prevent an objective exa-
tion that more hearings would
sembly. And Campbell, who is
nation of the ERA.
contribute little.
thought to oppose passage
Opponents want to hold off
AMONG ERA supporters,
(though he says he's uncom-
vote as long as possible, ar-
Rep: Mickey Michaux, D-Dury
mitted), says be hopes oppo-
ng, that there's no reason
ham, is the bluntest in promot-
nents will do the same.
rush things on such an im-
ing that a rgument, "Why go
AT THE FIRST meeting of
rtant issue.
through more debate?" ne
Campbell's committee last
Behind both arguments,
said last week. "We've heard
Tuesday, sparring between the
wever, each side admits,
it all before, let's just vote
opposing sides was evident al-
Sold
with
it
from: outset
Edwards Against,
Harvey For ERA
Continued from Page 1C
(Columbia hairdresser David
Bagwell, a national vice presi
the 124 House members are
dent of the association, said
ommitted to vote for the
the nonscientific survey should
RA. but that only 20 of the
not be taken lightly. He said
senators now plan to vote
a similar poll in 1972 predict
r it. Proponents must win in
ed that Richard Nixon would
oth Houses; opponents must
carry every state but Massa-
lock the amendment in just
chusetts in the presidential.
chamber.
election.)
Both sides have lobbyists
powerful politicians work-
THE ERA opponents, how-
them. Groups of
ever, strongly disagree with
Sinen wearing "Stop ERA"
the assertion, that most South
The Charlotte Observer
Section
Sunday
Local News
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Classifieds
February 16, 1975
Kays Gary
Carolinas ERA
Vote May Be Crucial
N.C. Proponents Push Vote; Foes Stall
S.C. Lawmakers Divided
By PAUL BERNISH
scores the intense war "of votes in he 50-member Sen-
Observer Staff Writer
strategy that has built up this
By JON BUCHAN
anti-ERA lobbying campaigns
ella Story Brings To Mind
ate.
RALEIGH - A few days
Observer Columbia Bureau
year as the N. C. legislature
in anticipation of one more
after the 1975 General Assem-
Opponents, meanwhile, don't
COLUMBIA.: It took the
battle over ratification.
tackles the ERA again.
bly session began, freshman
diseuss
ures, saying they
Dorothy 'Long Sam' Brown
LEGISLATORS for and
S.C. General Assembly 50
Thirty-four states have rati-
haven't
state Sen. Charles Vickery, D-
time to count'
against
controversial
years to w ratify the 19th
fied the ERA. Four more -
the
heads.
Orange, strode into the Senate
Constitutional
Amendment to the United
bringing the total to 38 or
member "Long Sam."
amendment
chamber prepared to intro-
But, as
e intensity of both
agreed last week that the ma-
States Constitution giving
three-fourths. of the states -
inderella story freshens the memory as if an
sides'
duce a bill calling for ratifica-
et
rts reflects, the
neuvering going on now is
women the right to vote.
must. approve it before it can
being played again with warm but minor
tion of the equal rights
issue is fai
rom settled.
likely
to
Twice in the past three
be added to the Constitution.
GR Press, Photo
"Until I actually studied the
Equal Rights Amendment, I
had supported it," Mrs. Elaine
Donnelly, of Detroit, told mem-
bers of the Ladies Literary
Club.
Stop ERA chairman says
amendment will deprive
women of more rights
By Bernice Mancewicz
the other, notes the Stop ERA chairman.
She is young, vivacious and dedicated.
"This will not be equal pay for equal
She believes in women's rights but is no
work. It will have nothing to do with ability
militant feminist.
only sex priorities.
"Until I actually studied the Equal
"When there is SO much to lose why do
Rights Amendment, I had supported it,"
women bet on anything as drastic and
Mrs. Elaine Donnelly of Detroit told mem-
unpredicatable as ERA?
bers of the Ladies Literary Club Wednes-
"Senator Sam Ervine has said
day morning.
ERA is the most drastic proposal. It
mach the
will outlaw any law which benefits
NY. Daily News 2/21/75 42.
Betty's Mail
Is 3-1 Against
Rights Stand
Cheerful as always. Betty Ford "ex-
pected" her mail to be against her
strong stand for the passage of Equal
Rights Amendment to the U.S. Con-
stitution. It is meant to end sex dis-
crimination. After luncheon wit h
wives of U.S. Chamber of Commerce
directors. Mrs. Ford acknowledged
EARLY THIS month,
North Dakota became the
Wash Star News 2/18/75
34th state to ratify ERA,
but Arizona killed a meas-
ure to approve the amend-
Mrs. Ford
ment last week and the
Georgia Senate turned
down a similar resolution
yesterday.
Meanwhile, Knight
Mulls Trip
Newspapers has learned
that Republican National
Chairwoman Mary Louise
To Back
Smith also has pushed for
ratification in at least
eight states. Mrs. Smith
said this effort is "person-
ERA
al" and not coordinated
with the White House,
Knight News Service
Sen. Sam Ervin
D-N.C., who led the oppo-
Betty Ford is contem-
sition to ERA in the Sen-
plating her most aggres-
ate, said last weekend he
sive move to date in behalf
doubts Mrs. Ford "under-
of the Equal Rights
stands very much about
Amendment.
that
Administration insiders