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32. The role of industry in developing the potentialities of
women through the attitudes taken towards women's employment
and their advancement was also noted. Most young women enter
employment with the thought of simply holding down a job for
some temporary period of time, but the possibility always exists
of converting the job-holder into a career worker, if the proper
encouragement and training are given.
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(c) Employment Opportunities
33. Discussion of the Council's present thinking about policy
issues related to employment opportunities turned primarily on
the role of legislation. The conferees noted distinctions
among equal rights laws, equal pay laws, and other kinds of
special legislation for women. However, the discussion failed to
distinguish clearly between the role of legislation in
protecting women workers and in expanding or contracting their
employment opportunities.
34. Among the women's organizations, the National Federation
of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the National
Women's Party, and the National Association of Women Lawyers
have worked for the passage of an equal rights law. Other
women's organizations, convinced that the passage of such a law
would negate all of the laws specifically designed to protect
women, and stressing equity rather than equality, have been
opposed or neutral with respect to it. Equal pay laws, on the
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