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Councilman Caro} (wed) accused the Board of
ucation thousands of women employees at
; loss running into the millions of dollars.
She said that in one flagrant case of discrimination ‘an excep-
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tionally qualified women professor had lost more than a quarter of a mill
dollars in salary during her career, and faces a Dune curtailed pension.
She identified her as Priscilla Pollister of Brooklyn College.
- ; Mrs. Greitzer said, "The Board's 19th-Century pattern of if
ination by sex is evident at every level threvghout the
: there are only two women among more than 70 deans at 14
There is only one woman president (Jacqueiine Wexler of
tem's nine senior and eight community colleges. i BE
> University, from the chancellor on down, are male, and the Board i has
only Saereenien among its 21 members. A woman educator, who has the ‘mi
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: fortune' to become pregnant, faces additional and uncenscionable discrimi-
nation."

The Manhattan legislator unleashed her newest charges of discrin

: ination against Sethen at a City Hall press conference in aes a large group
of women educators from seven City University institutions pas ticipened: Si
has issued reports periodically during the past year on such discrimination
by banks, insurance companies, public utilities and other major companies
doing business with the city, such as consultant firms.

Previously she had organized "a women's war" against restaurants
refusing to serve women. The campaign resulted in passage of a City Council
bill last year ending such discrimination and finally breaking the men-only
policies of such establishments as the Plaza's Oak Room and McSorley
Ale House.

; fhe women educator: emphasized that they were participating jn
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, Some of those present are employed Dat Nave been passed over ‘
time and time again for promotion in favor-cxr male educators, Mrs. Greitzer :
said, adding that "the Boord is so callous in its male-chauvinist policics
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that it has even failed tocomply with official directives to end obvious ,
discrimination at Prooklyn College.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare found on April 30,

-igation that *the weight of Gvi@enee....supports the complaint‘

after an inves

allegation of sex discrimination...we were unable to find any reason for the

other than her sex...(she) is a

complainant's slow promotional!
victim of the general pattern of sex discrimination." oe,

: The complainant was Dr. Anna M. Babey~Brooke of Brooklyn's Engi ish)
Department, who participated in the press conference. Her salary losses due :
to discrimination are estimated at $97,461. i

Mrs. eecece said, “Although this is the first such ruling in
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New York City, it by no means constitutes an isdlated case. More such rulings
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are bound to follow. But, we understand that the Board has come to an aston-

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Shing Gecision: instead of s findings as clear evidence of

19th-Century discrimination, it plans to fight the ruling."
She pledged to carry her battle with the Board to Washington if
necessary. She said there were a number of actions the women educators
could take in order to force compliance, but she refused to reveal what they
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were.-
She concluded: "In a male-dominated society, womefh are tradition~

ally but erroneously considered to be talkative, but you will not learn of

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our next steps from any woman in this group."

Supporting Councilman Greitzer's charges of discrimination were
the following women educators: Priscilla Pollister, Anna Babey-Brooke, Nina
Levinson, Katharine M. Rogers, Anne Walsh, Zalmar Perlin, Shirley Harrison,
Trudy Katzer, Susanne Paul, Renee Queen, Nicole D'Avanzo, Gertrude Ezorsky
and Carolyn Hendricks, all of Brooklyn College; Jennie Wells, Ruth Harris, .
Evelyn Lerner, Marion Friedewald, Pearl Gasarch and Jean L. Geissler, all
of New Yor: City Community College; Ulla Dydo, of Bronx Community College;
Paulette Roy, Mrs. Lesser and Mrs. es lbhaum, of City College; Frances K.
Barasch, of Bernard Baruch College; Despoina Ikaris, of Kingsboro Community
College and Jane Joffe Young of Manhattan Community College.

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