| 11-24 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The Bill of Rights for Women
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Kate Millett and Betty Power.
Have we come a long way, baby?
The following is part of
the Bill of Rights for Women proposed by the National Organization for
Women in 1969:
I. That the United States Congress immediately pass
the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to provide that "Equality
of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
or by any State on account of sex," and
that such then be immediately ratified by the several States.
[It wasn't.]
II. That equal employment opportunity be guaranteed
to women, as well as men, by insisting that the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission enforce the prohibitions against sex discrimination in employment
under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the same vigor as
it enforces the prohibitions against racial discrimination.
[It doesn't.]
III. That women be protected by law to ensure
their right to return to their jobs within a reasonable time after childbirth
without the loss of seniority or other accrued benefits, and be paid maternity
leave as a form of social security and/or employee benefit. [They
still aren't.]
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11-24 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-24-1848, Lili Lehmann, German operatic
soprano known for lieder singing and her Wagnerian interpretations.
B. 11-24-1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett, English
author, who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886, film 1936),
and The Secret Garden (1911) both a play and film of the 1990's.
Burnett had turned to writing to support her widowed mother.
B. 11-24-1885, Anna Louise Strong, journalist
and author of dozens of books about Russia and China, lived in Russia
and finally resettled to China where she became a personal friend of Mao
Tse-tung and trusted observer of the Chinese government. Founded the Moscow
News, an English newspaper in Russia.
B. 11-24-1887, Mary Ely Lyman, Anglo-American
theologian. Received her B.D. from Union Seminary in 1919 as the only
woman in the class. Was not allowed to attend the commencement luncheon
and had to sit in the balcony with faculty wives during the graduation
ceremony even though she was the ranking scholar of her class. She attended
two years at Cambridge on a fellowship and was refused a degree or a transcript
because of her sex. She taught religion at Barnard College from 1919-1940
and taught at Union Seminary along with her husband. She was dean and professor
of religion at Sweet Briar College. In 1950 became the first woman to hold
a faculty chair at Union Seminary although a few years earlier she had
been terminated because her husband (15 years her senior) had retired and
it was "assumed" she would be retiring also.
B. 11-24-1888, Cathleen Nesbitt, actor who
typified British "grande dame" in her later years; appeared in
some 300 roles on London and New York stages and 36 movies. Created Commander
of British Empire (1978).
Event 11-24-1930, Ruth Nichols began the first
transcontinental flight from New York to California by a woman. It
took seven days.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
MILLETT, KATE:
"Many
women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof
could be found of the totality of their conditioning."
-- Kate Millett: Sexual Politics
POWER, BETTY:
"When you know something about the reality of the world that those
who stand in ignorance do not know, then you can't not educate."
-- Betty Power, 1987.
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