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Volume IV_ No. 5 May - June 1983

WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE, a one-day conference sponsored
by Hunter College and the National Council for Research on Women, took place at
Roosevelt House on March 23, 1983. Donna Shalala, President of Hunter College,
welcomed the participants. Susan Lees, Professor of Anthropology at Hunter, and
Mariam Chamberlain, President of the National Council for Research on Women,
identified the formation of a better working relationship between scholars and
planners of policy and action programs in the field of Women and Development as
one of the conference's key goals.

Florence Howe of the Feminist Press and Hanna Papaneck, a scholar with the
Center for Asian Development Studies at Boston University, addressed the morning
plenary session, followed by Nadia Youssef, Senior Policy Specialist of the
United Nations' Children's Emergency Fund, who acted as discussant.

Florence Howe discussed the development, purpose and philosophy of the women's
studies discipline in the United States. She stressed that women's studies programs
grew out of the women's movement's concern to improve the life of the masses of
American women. At first, the concern was that women should have equal access to male
oriented education. But it became clear that such an education encouraged women to
passively accept domesticity or sex segregated options in the labor force. It did
not challenge the power base of patriarchal society nor consider the extent of its
oppressive influence over women's lives. Dr. Howe next addressed the peculiar con-
ditions of American undergraduate university education which facilitated the de-
velopment and growth of women's studies. After outlining the main elements of a
women's studies curriculum, she spoke about the recent efforts in Thirld World
countries to implement a similar curriculum either through formal or informal
educational programs.

Hanna Papaneck considered the challenges of and divisions within the inter-
national scholarship on women. Although feminist scholarship has tried to broaden
its concern to include the role of women in development, Papaneck pointed out that
this effort was constrained by the parochial attitudes of American universities,
particularly in the post Vietnam war era and the reluctance of women scholars in
campus area studies programs tolink themselves with women's studies efforts. Next,
she considered the causes of division between scholars and policy or action program
practitioners in the field of women and development. Since research in this area
policy oriented research involving the allocation of scarce resources among diver-
gent claimants in developing countries, Papaneck suggests that it is inevitable




that tensions will exist particularly when scholars assume an advocacy function
and are critical of the goal orientations of policy or aid institutions. An indi-
vidual practitioner may have little actual control or influence on such an orien-
tation within her institution. Moreover tensions exist between academics and bu-
reaucrats because of what Papaneck considered to be a difference in institutional
styles and self interests. Another problem Papaneck mentioned was that research
on Women and Development generally received low priority in agency planning and
therefore often had to be obliquely integrated into projects designed for other
Purposes such as family planning. She further stressed that in developing meaning-
ful policy for women it was necessary to focus on national policy interventions
and trace their direct and indirect influences on women. She cited the example of
a high tariff placed on a type of imported cloth in Indonesia which adversely
affected women's home based batik enterprises. Papaneck concluded her presentation
identifying strategies to overcome divisions, particularly on the campus, such as
including materials from other countries in university courses and integrating
women's studies and area studies programs. Moreover she suggested that development
centers should have more women in policy positions.

Nadia Youssef stressed that women's studies and women and development are two
distinct disciplines having different agendas and interests. The latter focuses on
how world development processes affect women and arose from the equity issue that
development projects were concerned only with male ends. Youssef stressed that women
and development focused on the poverty of the Third World Women. This poverty could
not be fully explained in terms of patriarchy, the focus of women's studies, but
involved considerations of economic systems, class, ethnicity, race, imported tech-
nology, etc. Because of class interests, women in a Third World context could not
be viewed as a sisterhood. Indeed, Youssef emphasized that a policy planner who
dealt only with elite women would have a misconception of reality.

Afternoon workshops jointly led by scholars and practitioners, addressed topics
including: Women in the Workforce, Food and Agriculture Technologies, Health, Edu-
cation, and Women's Participation in Development Planning, and Fertility and Re-
productive Issues.

The conference organizers plan to issue a conference report including the texts
of the speeches given at the plenary session. For further information about obtaining
a copy, contact: National Council for the Research on Women, Roosevelt House, 47-49
East 65th Street, New York, New York 10021, (212) 750-6047.

Eleanor Fapohunda

Sentor Lecturer, Economies
University of Lagos, Nigeria
Vistting Scholar, CSWS




Calls for....

THE NEW AGENDA, A National Conference to Develop a Blueprint of Action for
Women's Sport, presented by the Women's Sports Foundation and the United States
Olympic Committee, will take place November 3 - 6, 1983 in Washington, D.C. The
Conference Director solicits original research papers, new syntheses of relevant
research, personal perspectives, and/or draft resolutions for the conference.
Submissions are invited in the following areas: women in sport leadership; careers
in sport; increasing the public awareness and acceptance of women's sport; sex-role
socialization and involvement in sport; obtaining resources for women's sport;
women's capacities for sport and fitness activities and the effects of such acti-
vities on well-being; status of women in sport governance. A one-page biographical
sketch and a one-page abstract should be sent by June 1, 1983 to the "New Agenda"
c/o Dr. Carol Oglesby, Conference Director, College of HPERD , Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122, (215)787-8769.

WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM is planning a special issue on the “Auton-
ony vs. Integration Debate within Women's Studies." For submission requirements,
write: Gloria Bowles, Women's Studies, 301 Campbell, University of California -
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720. The journal is also planning a special issue
on men and sexuality. For guidelines, write: Liz Stanley and Sue Wise, WSIF Special
Issue, Sociology Department, The University, Manchester M13 9PL, England.

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON WOMEN will take place in
Groningen, The Netherlands, April 17 - April 21, 1984. The theme of the Congress
is "Women's Worlds: Strategies for Empowerment." The Congress is soliciting papers
and poster sessions in the following suggested areas: Women and: meditine, manage-
ment, public leadership, science, technology, work, agriculture, social welfare,
law, changing family patterns, the arts, religion, communication, housing, education
and philosophy. Deadline for submission is August 1, 1983. For abstract forms and
further details, contact: Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women,
c/o Dr. Christiane Clason, Sociologisch Instituut, Rijlsuniversiteit Groningen,
Grote Markt 23, 9712 HR Groningen, The Netherlands.

Papers are solicited for a COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS ON MARGE PIERCY, devoted
to poetry and fiction. The collection will be published by Negative Capability Press.
Papers should be 12-15 pages and should be submitted with self-addressed stamped
envelope by August 15, 1983 to: Sue B. Walker and Eugenie L. Hammer, Editors, Depart-
ment of English, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688.

SPECIAL NOTE

Contributions are invited for the JOAN KELLY CITY COLLEGE FUND. The Fund will be
used to purchase books and other educational materials for the Joan Kelly Reading
Room which is located on the 6th floor of the North Academic Center at City College,
CUNY. Checks are tax deductible and should be made out to: CCB a/c/ #08 9050 6011 7160
Send check to: Joel H. Winer, Chair, Department of History, or Prof. Barbara Watson,
Director, Women's Studies Program, City College, CUNY, Convent Avenue & 138th St.,

New York, NY 10031.




Resources

The Boston Women's Teachers Group, a teacher-initiated research and educational
project provides support for public school teachers. The group conducts workshops
and distributes curriculum materials on the institutional barriers in schools and
their effects on teachers. The Other End of the Corridor, a 30 minute slide-tape/
filmstrip which uses selections from interviews with 25 teachers to illustrate

how teachers’ attitudes change throughout their career; is available from the
Group for sale or rental. For further information, contact: Boston Women's Teachers
Group, Inc., P.O. Box 169, West Somerville, MA 02144, (617) 666-8956.

The Women's Research and Education Institute, the nonpartisan research arm of the
Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, has released an Alert highlighting the
impact on women of the president's proposed budget for fiscal 1984. The Alert doc-
uments the way in which women and children will be disproportionately affected

by domestic spending cuts; it is a preview of the more comprehensive Reductions
and Realities: How Reagan's Budget Will Affect Women, Both are available ($2.00
and $4.00 respectively) from WRIE, 204 Fourth Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
20003, (202) 546-1090.

Networking News is the publication of Networks Unlimited, an organization dedicated
to facilitating the networking process through meetings, small support groups and
publications. Subscriptions are available for $ 12.00 ($ 10 for students, disabled
and senior citizens). Upcoming programs sponsored by Networks Unlimited include:
Workshop on "Personal Politics" to be held Thursday, May 5, 5:00-8:00 pm at the
New York Urban Coalition, 1515 Broadway; Tour of the Financial District, Saturday,
May 7, 12:00-3:30 pm, starting at noon at Trinity Church, at the end of South
Street Seaport; and Career Support Group, Tuesday, May 10, 5:30-7:30 pm at Equi-
table Life, Area 7-G, 1285 Avenue of the Americas. For further information, con-
tact Networks Unlimited, Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, Suite 946, New York, NY 10173,
(212) 868-3370 (answering service).

Abuse of Women in the Media, a 90-page book with photographs, is now available from
the Consumers’ Association of Penang, Malaysia. The book traces the variety of ways
the media portray women as inferior beings and sex objects. To order, send check
made payable to: Consumers’ Association of Penang, at 27 Kelawei Road, Penang,
Malaysia. ($ 3.00/copy plus $.30/surface mail or $2.50/airmail).

The Nuts and Bolts of NTO, A Handbook for Recruitment, Training, Support Services,
and Placement of Women in Nontraditional Occupations (1981; 200 pp.; $ 15.95) and
Time for a Change: A Woman's Guide to Nontraditional Occupations (1981; 81 pp.;

$ 7.95) are both available from the Technical Education Research Centers. For
ordering information, contact TERC Publications, 44 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
02138, (617) 547-0430.

The International Center for Research on Women announces the publication of Women
and Poverty in the Third World, edited by Mayra Buvinic, Margaret Lycette, and
William McGreevey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983, $ 29.95). Women and Poverty
is a collection of articles in which social scientists from different disciplines
address two themes: the extent of women's poverty and women's contribution to the
economies of poor households.





Resources

Handbook for Women Scholars, Strategies for Success, a resource book, is available
from the Center for Women Scholars. Chapters include: Status and Needs of Women

Scholars; Conversation with Minority Women Scholars; Mary Daly: A Decade of Aca-
demic Harassment and Feminist Survival; Acquiring Skills for the Funding Search;
Protective Strategies for Change Makers, etc. To order, make check for $ 10.95
(plus $ .50 for freight and handling) paya le to: Center for Women Scholars, and
mail to Center for Women Scholars, American Behavioral Research Corporation,
1925 Page Street, San Francisco, California 94117.

A series of publications designed to distribute information about women's studies
and research materials are available from Women's Studies Librarian-at-large for

the University of Wisconsin. They include: Feminist Collections: Women's Studies
Library Resources in Wisconsin; New Books on Women and Feminism; Feminist Peri-
odicals: A Current Listing of Contents; Women's Studies in Wisconsin--Who's Who

and Where; and Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies. Subscriptions on a
calendar year basis are available free for Wisconsin residents and for $12.00 to

all others. To subscribe, make check for $ 12.00 payable to University of Wisconsin-
Madison and mail to: Acquisitions Department, 324 Memorial Library, 278 State Street,
Madison, Wisconsin, 53706. , ae

Western Womantalk, an oral history monograph edited by Elizabeth Jameson, examines
the importance of women's oral history in recovering the record of the American
West and techniques for oral history studies. The publication is based on the pro-
ceedings of the conference on "Methodologies and Strategies for Women's Oral His-
tory in the Rocky Mountains/Southwest" held at Loretto Heights College in 1981.
Western Womentalk is available from The Research Center on Women, Loretto Heights
College, 3001 South Federal Boulevard, Denver, Colorado, 80236. Four 90-minute
cassette tape recordings of the conference proceedings are available for $ 28.00.
For further information, phone Betsy Jameson, Direcor, Research Center on Women,
(303) 936-8441, ext. 355, or Bob Kennedy, Director of Public Relations, ext. 236.

Kheturni Bayo: North Indian Farm Women, a 19 minute film examines the roles and
duties of the women in a typical extended family of land-owning peasants in Gujarat,
India. It is available for sale: $ 215/film, $ 145/video, or rental: $ 13/filn,
from the Pennsylvania State University, Audio Visual Services, Special Services
Building, University Park, PA 16802, (814) 865-6314.

Feminism in Canada: Theory and Practice, edited by Angela Miles and Geraldine Finn;

Work and Madness, The Rise of Community Psychiatry by Diane Ralph; Louise Michel by

Edith Thomas; and The Limits of Liberalism, The Making of Canadian Sociology by
Deborah Harrison, are all available from Black Rose Books. For a catalogue of books

including Canadian feminist scholarship, and ordering information, write: Black
Rose Books, 3981 Boulevard St. Laurent, 4th Floor, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1Y5.

Funding Guide for Native Americans, ($49.95), a 400 page guide listing to 150
foundations, corporations, and religious associations, is available from Dean
Chavers and Associates. Write or call: DCA, 7001 South 234th East Avenue, Broken
Arrow, Oklahoma 74012, (918) 251-0727.




Resources

The Feminist Press announces the publication of Antoinette Brown Blackwell by
Elizabeth Cazden - the first complete biography of one of the early leaders in

the struggle for women's rights and first American woman to be ordained a Christian
minister. To order, contact: The Feminist Press, Box 334, Old Westbury, New York,
NY, 11568, (516) 997-7660. ($ 16.95/cloth; $ 9.95/paper).

The Newsletter for the Reproductive Rights National Network, Winter 1983 issue on
Women and Unemployment is now available from the reproductive Rights National Net-

work office. It includes features on "Feminism in the Peace Movement", "The Pro-
Family Left: Whose Family? Which Left?" and "Women Weather Economic Storms," as
well as news about the Network. To subscribe, send check for $ 8/low income; $ 10/
regular; or $ 12/sustainer, to Reproductive Rights National Network, Reproductive
Rights Newsletter, Subscription Department, 17 Murray Street, 5th Floor, New York,
NY 10007.

CATALYST library has produced the first specialized bibliographic database on women
and employment. The database, called Catalyst Resources for Women (CRFW) is accessed
through Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS). The CRFW database contains over 3000
published documents on such two-career family issues as child care, alternative work
patterns, relocation, and parenting. Materials on other employment issues include:
affirmative action, black and minority women, job sharing, part time and flexible
hours. For further information, contact Gurley Turner, Director of Information Ser-
vices, or database specialist Susan Barribeau, at the Catalyst Library, 212~759-9700.
Catalyst is located at 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022.

The Invisible Minority: Aging and Lesbianism, by Chris Almvig, is appropriate for

teachers, students, researchers, gerontologists and others interested in aging
lesbians. To order, send $ 11.00 (includes mailing) to: Institute of Gerontology,
Book Order Department, Utica College of Syracuse University, Utica, NY 13502.

Newsletter -— Sex Roles Within Mass Media is a publication covering international
scholarship on women and media. It contains lsitings of events and available reports
from conferences, as well as abstracts of new books in the field. For further infor-
mation, contact Ann-Margrete Wachtmeister, Swedish Television Company, TH/T2,

S-105 10 Stockholm, Sweden, or Madeline Kleberg, School of Journalism, Gjorwells-
gatan 26, S-112 60 Stockholm, Sweden.

Office Work in America reviews national statistics in the areas of pay, working
mothers, sexual harassment, office automation and workforce trends. To order, send
$ 3/9 to 5 members; $ 4/non-members; $ 8/institutions to: Working Women, 1224 Huron
Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. A series of other titles are also available from Wor-
king Women Educational Fund. They include: "Warning: Health Hazards for Office Wor-
kers," "Pay Equity for Office Workers," "What Are Office Workers Paid?" "Age Dis-
crimination" etc. For resource list and order form, write to Working Women st the
address listed above.

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Women’s Studies

The CUNY Graduate Center will be offering the following interdisciplinary women's
studies courses in Fall 1983:

Anthropology
U716

English
U702.06

IDS.
U816

Liberal Studies
U721

Political Science
U822.2

Psychology
U801.53

Economics
U871

Family, Law and Society
Professor A. Rassam

Mondays, 4:15 - 6:15

Early Women Writers in England from Aphra Behn to
Jane Austen

Professor K. Rogers
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30

Workshop for Guided Research and Guided Reading in
Women's Studies

Professor M. Parlee
Day and Hours to be arranged

Feminist Social Theories
Professor C. Muller
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8:30

Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties
Professor T. Karis
Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:15

Individual Differences in Development
Professor M. Parlee

Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:15

Labor Economics
Professor C. Reimers
Tuesdays, 4:15 - 6:15

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Readers wishing to send ideas and announcements for future issues, or to
respond to items appearing in the Newsletter are encouraged to do so. Decisions
about publication will be made on the basis of space considerations.

Please submit all materials for the July - August Issue no later than June 5th,
and mail to: Center for the Study of Women and Society Newsletter, CUNY Graduate
Center, 33 West, 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, Attn.: Lisa Master, Editor.




Book Review

The Working Mother: A Survey of Problems and Programs in Nine Countries, by Alice
H. Cook. Seeond edition revised 1978. New York State School of Industrial
Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 712 pp.

Flext-Time: Where, When and How? by Pam Silverstein and Jozetta H. Srb, 1979.
Same publisher as above. 60 pp., $ 3.650.

In his 1983 State of the Union message, President Reagan specifically named
working mothers as among those particularly hard hit at the present time. This
lip service attention to their needs was especially galling in light of his ad~
ministration's record of cutting prenatal nutrition programs and closing day care
centers. Yet, working women have been disadvanteged even in the best of U.S. eco-
nomies. Feminist scholars have begun to raise the theoretical issues of why this
should be so.. The two books under review are concerned with the more pragmatic
aspects of what can be done about it.

The first, Alice Cook's The Working Mother, is a concise, well-written account
of the working conditions facing employed mothers in nine countries. Under fourteen
chapter headings such as "Women's Jobs," "Equal Pay," "Child Care," "Protective
Legislation," "Social Welfare and Social Insurance," and "Women and Trade Unions,"
she compares the national policies of six European countries, plus Australia, Japan,
and Israel that encourage or discourage women from remaining in the labor force.

Cook argues that’ women in the paid labor force have special needs that arise
from biological and social factors. In early adulthood they bear children, and
throughout their lives they have differentiated role assignments in the home, work-
place, and community which include primary responsibility for their home and family.
Yet she found that both communist and non-communist countries recognize only one
pattern of work, theuninterrupted work life that begins when formal schooling ends
and continues until compulsory retirment. For the most part it is structured to
fil1 eight hours a day, forty-eight to fifty-two weeks a year. Women with children
can never conform to this almost universal prototype. Most social programs, however,
are designed to allow mothers to adapt to it, rather than adjusting industrial work
patterns to fit family needs.

Of the nine countries surveyed by Cook, Sweden has the best and most carefully
planned national policy to keep women in the paid labor force, and Japan the worst.
Among the Swedish features are paid parental leave up to eighteen months; subsidised
child care; and counseling and retraining for homemakers re-entering the labor force.
Japan, despite its current’ popularity in American business schools as the inspiration
for quality circles and Theory Z, is not a model to emulate in its treatment of work-
ing women. There, as here, women are paid much less and promoted far less frequently
than their male co-workers. Employed mothers of small children must rely on informal
arrangements with their family or neighbors for childminding, as there are almost no
other facilities available.

Lending further support to the reserve army of labor theory, Cook found that a
shortage of male labor was the determining factor in whether and when a country
adopted programs designed to keep women in the labor market. In most of Western
Europe the shortage of male labor in the 1960s led employers to recruit both women
and foreign male workers. Again Sweden was the exception, because of a government
decision in the early 1970s to avoid the social costs of imported labor by relying




solely on Sweden's married women to fill the shortage. Other European countries
resolved their labor shortages by a combination of domestic female and imported
male workers, and their maternal welfare programs were correspondingly more piece-
meal than Sweden's.

But to imply that women remain in the labor force only if encouraged to do: so
by the government belies the case of the United States. Whether from choice or
necessity, more than half of all married women now have jobs. The question for us,
then, is not whether women will work, but rather who will look after their children.
The most often mentioned possibility is public or private day care, but it is not
the only one. Another is "flexitime" -- the catchall term for work schedules that
deviate from a 9-5 day work week or from an imposed standard of common hours for
all employees, the subject of the second book being reviewed.

Pam Silverstein and Jozetta H. Srb's Flexitime: Where, When, and How describes
the implementation of flexitime in various offices in the United States and Western
Europe. Although in some of its applications flexitime can be a great boon to working
parents, allowing them to share the tasks of childminding or to coordinate their work
hours with the time their children are at school, nowhere in their book do Silver-
stein and Srb mention it as a women's issue. They thereby unintentionally echo Cook's
point about the lack of recognition given to women's special needs as members of the
labor force. However, by themselves ignoring gender they also detract from the use-
fulness of their research.

For example, they report that for employers the primary reason for implementing
flexitime was to improve productivity by decreasing absenteeism and overtime. For
employees the main benefit was the opportunity to chose their working hours. When
asked, as part of the evaluation of a pilot program for the U.S. Department of Labor,
why they picked the hours they did, 67% of the respondents replied traffic or carpool
arrangements as compared to the 37% who said child care. But because we are not told
the breakdown of workers and respondents by sex, we do not know how to interpret the
data. Is it men who are concerned with their cars and women with their children, or
is there another explanation? My guess would be that this response supports Cook's
contention that women in the labor force already have made adjustments to industrial
work patterns or they have dropped out. Piecework programs cannot reverse this trend.

Of the two, Cook's book is the more analytic and clearly written, excellent as
a summary or introductory text on the topic of working women, while Silverstein and
Srb's is more technical, a how-to-do-it manual of greater interest to an industrial
relations specialist than to the general reader. Yet, read together they point to
the same conclusion: only profound changes in the structure of our work lives will
relieve women of their double burden. To that end Cook proposes a maternal bill of
rights, based on the post World War II G.I. Bill of Rights. Her version would acknow-
ledge the fact of women's interrupted careers by offering them the means for further
education after the birth of their children, and it would pay employers to provide
them with on-the-job training.

Silverstein and Srb suggest that the concept of flexitime be expanded from the
notion of staggered work hours over the course of a day or week to encompass a life-
time cyclical work pattern rather than the traditional linear one. As they note, re-
searchers have learned that workers of both sexes prefer redistributing their time
for work, education, and leisure throughout adulthood, instead of the traditional
allocation of education to youth, work in the middle years, followed by retirement
and complete leisure in old age.




At a time when even established programs of support like public day care centers
are threatened, it is hard to envision the broad-based structural changes that would
eliminate the need to consider working mothers a special interest group. The adoption
of proposals to better integrate work and family life seems unlikely in the near fu-
ture. In the meantime, these two books provide essential material to help us evaluate
shortterm solutions.

Eve Hochwald

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology

Predoctoral Fellow, Program on Women
and Work, CSWS

Announcements

THE DYNAMICS OF COOPERATIVE CHILDBIRTH, a conference sponsored by the Metro-
politan New York Childbirth Education Association, Inc., will take place May 20 -
22, 1983 at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in New York City. The seminar is designed to
expand the knowledge of professionals and lay persons working with the childbearing
family. It is also one step toward certification as a childbirth educator. Sessions
will include: "Cultural Warping of Childbirth and How Drug Safety is Determined;"
"On Labor, Women and Power in the Birth Place;" "Nutrition Counseling for the Child-
birth Educator;" "Obstetrical Intervention and Aesthesia." Registration for the
entire seminar costs $ 225; registration per day will cost $ 75. ($ 5 per day for
Teacher Trainees having completed previous seminars. To register, send check payable
to Metropolitan New York Childbirth Education Association to: Marcie Eisner, 1025
East 28th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11210. For further information, write or call: MNY/
CEA, POB 1900, New York, NY 10116, (212) 866-6373.

RAPE AND INCEST, the fourth annual conference of New York Women Against Rape, will
take place Thursday, May 12 - Saturday, May 14 at 109 East 16th Street, New York, NY
(Sunday, May 15 at YWCA, 610 Lexington Avenue at 53rd Street, New York City).

Sessions will include: "Counseling Child Victims of Sexual Assault and Their Families;"
"Issues for Lesbians in Rape Counseling;" "Support and Organizing among Incest Sur-
vivors;" "Safety Skills for Children," among others. Registration costs $ 65 for the
entire conference; $ 25 per day or workshop. Registration for Sunday only costs $ 3.

To register, send check to New York Women Against Rape (NYWAR), 231 East 14th Street,
New York, NY 10003.

THE DEPARTMENT, a play written by Barbara Garson and directed by Chris Kraus about
an office being automated, will be presented by Women's Office Workers Research and
Education Project, Inc., April 21-May 15, 1983, Thursdays-Sundays, 8:00pm. Contribu-
tions are $4.00 ($15 on Wed., April 27, 6:30pm for the special benefit performance
on Natioanl Secretaries Day). The play will be presented at the Theatre for the New
City, 162 Second Avenue (at 10th St.), New York. To reserve seats, contact: Women

Office Workers Research and Educational Project, Inc., 680 Lexington Avenue, New York,
NY 10022.




Announcements

EMERGING ISSUES IN THE WORKFORCE: THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE, a one-day seminar
sponsored by the Corsi Institute for Labor-Management Relations of Pace Univer-
sity, will take place Tuesday, June 14, 9:00am - 4:15pm at Pace University, Pace
Plaza, across from City Hall in Manhattan. The seminar will address the following
issues: Equal Employment Opportunity Hiring and Dismissals; Child Care; Flex-—Time;
Flex-Benefits; and Sexual Harassment. Registration, including lunch, costs $40.00/
professionals; 15.00/students. For further information, contact Ruth P. Gujarati,
Director, Corsi Institute, Pace University, Pace Plaza, Room T1407, New York, NY
10038, (212) 285-6348.

FEMINIST EDUCATION: QUALITY AND EQUALITY, the annual convention of the National

Women's Studies Association, will take place at the Ohio State University, June 26-
30, 1983. For registration information, contact: Mariene Longenecker and Suzanne
Hyers, Conference Coordinators, Center for Women's Studies, The Ohio State Univer-
sity, 207 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, (614)422-0085.

RESOURCE MOBILIZATION, CYCLES OF PROTEST AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN WESTERN
EUROPE AND THE U.S., a workshop sponsored by Cornell University's Western Societies

Program, Department of Government, and Women's Studies Program, will take place at
Cornell, May 5-7, 1983. For further information, contact: Mary F. Katzenstein and
Sidney Tarrow, Department of Government, McGraw Hill, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY 14853.

BALANCED CURRICULUM, a conference sponsored by Wheaton College to help educators
share resources in initiating or stimulating programs to integrate the study of
women into the curriculum, will take place June 22-24, 1983. For further information
contact: Dr. Bonnie Spanier, Balanced Curriculum Project Director, Wheaton College,
Norton, MA 02766, (617)285-7722.

THE COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN. will hold its annual conference October 13-
16, 1983 on Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor. Sessions include: "Stimme Suchen:
Feminist Perspectives on Work from Other Disciplines"; "Fiction, Fantasy and Free-
dom: Testing the Limits in Post-War Literature"; "Stimme Finden" and "Lost Voices/
New Voices." For further information, contact Edith Waldstein, Conference Coordi-
nator, M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14N-234, Cambridge, MA 02139, (617)253-4771.

WORKING WOMEN'S INSTITUTE will hold a fundraising evening of talk, food and
entertainment on June 10 to celebrate its 8th year. To aid WWI's goal of ending
sexual harassment on the job, send for tickets or information to: WWI, 593 Park
Avenue, New York, NY 10021, (212) 838-4420.

A New York City affiliate of VICTIMS OF INCEST CONCERNED EFFORT (V.0.1.C.E.),
a national network of survivor initiated incest prevention groups, has recently
been formed. The Manhattan Inter-Hospital Subcommittee on Child Sexual Abuse, The
New York City Advisory Task Force on Rape, and the New York Women Against Rape
supported efforts of New York City area survivors to establish the group. For
further information, contact the VOICE OF NYC coordinator: Anne Townsend, Probation
Officer, Room 1048, 100 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013, (212) 374-4545 (1:00 -
2:00 pm).




Professional Opportunities

THE HAMILTON PRIZE COMPETITION awards a $ 1,000 prize for the best book-length
manuscript illuminating facets of the life, roles, position, and/or achievements
of women, past and present. The University of Michigan Press also expects to
publish the winning work in their series of scholarly books on women, Women and
Culture. Entries should be works of synthesis and/or interpretation, monograph,
autobiography or oral history. Entrants must submit two-page abstracts by July 15,
1983. Full mansucripts will be due by September 1. Direct materials or inquiries
to: Hamilton Prize Competition, 354 Lorch Hall, The University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan 48109.

Mankato State University announces its degree program offering the MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN CONTINUING STUDIES with an emphasis in WOMEN'S STUDIES. The inter-
disciplinary program is based in humanities and social science and combines
individual course work, internships, cross-disciplinary seminars, and indivi-
dual and cooperative research projects. It is a feminist program oriented to-
ward training activists and leaders who wish to promote social change. For
further information, contact: Dr. Carolyn Shrewsbury, Chair, Women's Studies,
Box 64, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota 56001, (507) 389-2077.

"Teaching, Researching and Writing about Women of Color in the U.S." is the

theme of an intensive institute planned for June 19-25, 1983 by the INTER-
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GROUP EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND RACE, in
conjunction with the Center for Research on Women of Memphis State University.

The institute will bring together approximately 60 established scholars, junior
faculty, graduate students and other participants in comparative seminars, ple-
nary sessions, and workshops to share the theoretical perspectives on racial
ethnic women. For information, contact: The Center for Research on Women, Clement
Hall, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee 38152; (901) 454-2770 or -2780.

The University of Kent at Canterbury invites applications for the MA DEGREE
COURSE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES (part time or full time) from students with good
honors degrees in either the Social Sciences or the Humanities. For further
information and applications, write: The Senior Assistant Registrar, Faculty
of Social Sciences, The Registry, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, GB.

LEGISLATIVE FELLOWSHIPS ON WOMEN AND PUBLIC POLICY are available for January - July
1984 through the Center for Women in Government. The program, funded by the Revson
Foundation, is designed to develop specialists in policy issues of concern to women,
while increasing the capacity of the New York State Legislature to address such
issues. Fellowships combine academic work and placement with a N.Y.S. Legislator

or legislative committee. Matriculated students in graduate programs at all accred-
ited colleges and universities in New York State are eligible. Applications must be
submitted by June 1, 1983. For further information, or to receive an application,
write Fredda Merzon, Director, Legislative Fellowship on Women and Public Policy,
Center for Women in Government, Draper Hall, Room 302, State University of New York
at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, or call (518) 455-6211.