HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-05-04, Page 27The spring luncheon sponsored by the Maple Leaf Chapter IODE was
held Iast Wednesday afternoon atNoith Street United Church. F rom
�! the left are the speaker, Mrs. Doris Anderson, editor of Chatelaine;
'Mrs. William McKellar, Regent; Mrs. Bruce Craik, immediate past
president -of .th.L P rQvinc.i.al.Ch . er. IODE; and. Mrs: Rr_ .an AinsI-i.e.,.
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chairman of the luncheon. Other head table guests included Mrs.
Grace Neville, Regent of the Ahmeek Chapter IODE; Mrs. R.W.
Hughes who introduced the speaker; Mrs. Ron'McGee, first vice-
Re.genIr,s.,-_Auda'eyJ.•Royal, sec.onti vice
t;. -Regent -and-Mrs: Harry
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Woman -power being wasted
Doris Anderson, th'e editor of
Chatelaihe, believes Canadian
women have ''just not pushed
themselves' ` into the business
• and professional world: That's
the reason women are saddled
• with the "hand -maiden jobs". and
the • reason 'that this nation is
-wasting the availability and
brains ofour women", says Mrs,
Anciers.on. •
She was the speaker at the
• Maple Leaf Chapter IODE
• 'luncheon held at North Street
United Church last Wednesday
'afternoon. About 2'50 women
"r heard the well-known lady editor
_who describes herself as "just as
much of a harried housewife as
the rest of you
• "If all the women working today
dropped their notebooks and went
horn-eTthrs•-i=atintrv-wot d -grind :to--
a •stop• .Mrs: Anderson told her
audience. One-third of the
Canadian workforce is made up of
women, she said.
There's been a gradual change
in the pattern of things, the
speaker noted. It Used to be that
II young • ladies worked until they
were married, and then stayed at
h'csirre' .td .'i`1`r:se a hausefujl:-.-o"f
children,' make the 'budget work
and scrub the floors.
---,Nowadays women. work after
their 1rrarr'iage until their first
4 chilli, is within a month or two. of
being born. They take some time
off tp have -a small family and to.
,raise the children up to be school
age. and then many re-enter the
work force in their lath twenties
or early thirties, Mrs. Anderson
•
explained. ' "
A working mother of three
small boys. Mrs. Anderson told
.,her audience it took lots of energy
and plenty of organization- ,for a
young housewife and mother to -
.work outside the home...but
. • feels thq"`e"-ping talented and
vital women in the home and out of
fhe husinessworld would be
"doing men a disservice
"There is increasingly
enormous'pressure on men •to 'be
sure cos slant ,- .' s a tiI VI"rrt
Anderson. -With a working wife
the husband often spends les's
time being—successful and more
time with the children.• By women,
getting out in the world we can all'
be better parents:"
."There•are very few jobs that
can't be done by women as well as
men," Mrs. Anderson said. In
fact, stye suggested there are
some jobs presently being done by
men which could he better done by
-women. • -
In the field.of industrial design,
lik
for instance, women should be
designing the 'appliances for use
in the home, she said. Be ,g,e.,
women ':know what goes onu,in
houses, they should be in the field
of architecture; and because they
are 'fully eonversant with the
community needs of the family
and children, women should be in
city planning as well -as men, '
Mrs. Anderson said it was a
myth that all women are more
emotional than men, She said that
statistics prove that more men
than Women have emo4onal
problems.
Nor do the statistics prove that
there is a higher rate of absent-
eeis n among women than among
men, Mrs, Anderson stated,
It• has been known for many
years that women can clothe more
c �
plea jobs t -hat Mon 00 not, have-
the exterity to do easily. Besides
that, men do just as much job-,
hopping as women do, according
to.*Mr.s. Anderson.
The,speaker listed some of the
"funny little put-downs" that
women are subj'ected to every
day.
She said that to isay that a
woman "Thinks like a man is not
always a compliment. •
"Men have no monopoly on
logic or clarity of thoughts."'said
Mrs. Anderson.
"And then they.say.that in spite:
of everything, she hasn't lost her
femininity," scoffed Mrs,
Anderson. "Femininity isn't
something they can take away or
give you, like a badge. And I never
hear them say of a successful man
in the business world that he
hasn't lost his masculinity."
Mrs. Anderson feels that
women .downgrade themselves,
She said they seem 'to have a
"built-in inferiority complex.
That may he because of the way"
in which girls a °
Anderson says. She noted that
little girls are brought up `-to
believe that a lady "looks' after
her silver and picks flowers and
has a nice time
"`Iatrat's-nat a practical image
for.• tnost girls," "Said' Mrs.
Anderson: "It is'a false image to
hold out to them."
Mrs. Anderson also noted that
women are supposed to he "sex-
-symbols but she admitted that
most women are `'just not
equipped so it doesn't work".
Another common fallacy is the •
"happy housewife" role i,;which
women figure high in radio and
television commercials. .
"Frankly I' hope I- never meet
her (the happy housewife)," •said
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Mrs,. Anderson. "She's, always
burbling about Wow clean her sink
is or how white she gets her
clothes." •
Ha "career woman" loses h,er
tempeitrin the movies, the script
counters with "what she needs is
a good man", the speaker stated.
In real life, a cranky lady
executive is believed to "be going
through the menopause".
Mrs. Anderson called for more
women in politics. She said that
one lady member of pa rliarnent at
Ottawa among 261 men was . a
ridiculous situatlion. She said that
'Chatelaine had interviewed over
100 women across Canada who
had *Stated they would accept
nomination for -a political .office.
She said the names, pictures and •
backgrounds of these women had
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The $tralght Goods
Stud�nts: from Ontqrio
to study -environment
Students from more thari 600
Ontario secondary schools are
:expected to, ,register 'for.. the
second youth conference on the
l• environment on August, 28, 29 and
30 in Kingston.
(' 0-Spons.orerk by Queen's
University and Ontario's' new
Ministry of the Environment, the
annual conference has been
dubbed "The Straight Goods."
"Students have often
complained that it is difficult for
them to get to the- heart of our
environmental problems," said
Hon. James Auld, Minister of the
Environment for Ontario. "This
conference will give students that
opportunity by exposing them to
an impressive array of experts in
all fields of the environment."'
Each' secondary school has
been invited to send one official
delegate from Grades .11 or 12.
R,eturrr. t.o school next term . is a
condition of
acceptance; The
•:conference... committee, -hopes
'" 4 de"IF apes a eTecthe
students themselves.
"What the university and •the
province are trying „to do is
simply create the setting and
make resource people available
to the students. To what extent
they benefit' is entirely up to
them," said conference Co -
Chairman Rob Buller of Queen's
University.
'The -first, Straight Goods
conference at Laurentian
University last year was such an
overwhelming success 'that
government was obligated to
make this an annual event", added
Dave Booth, Educational
Resources Co-ordinator for the
new Ontario Ministry of the
Environment.
Several renowned key speakers
will, deliver short stage -setting
papers of- 10 to 15 minutes,
Emphasis, is being placed on
informal dialogues between the
students and about sixty resource
people from - business' 'and
industry, governm.ent, . and
.community groups.
The res,purce people/re being
invited to contribute their time by
'being available for impromptu _
� .�.i1. •. •_s,e.sstan es :-- called
:w spontaneously by' groups of
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work ,of Men should have„equal
.,pay; that maternity leave should
he available to all women in ail
areas of the work force, that more
day nurseries should be opened to
•accornmodate the children of
working mothers.
"We must get rid of those
irritating prejudices,” said Mrs.
•Anderson. "We're poorer as a
nation until we do.," ,
:'One hundred years ago women
'rad the same status in society as
children and lunatics," said the.
speaker, "Women died when they
got married. They had no legal
rights." •
:She urged "bridges of
understanding, not harriers"
,between women and other women
between women 'and men: and
between women and. society in
,:.,been—published• -in��faaxelaine to �geraeral.--5he__s�aid�--it
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prove to , the country that good improve the quality of life for
women are available to be elected everyone.
to Ottawa,. contra ry to the claire of We need all of the' talent ''and-.
Ill political parties that there are all of the brains of •all of the
no women to ,run. A people," Doris Anderson
She said that women doing the concluded.
Woman to Woman
Continued from Page" 2B
of ,course, if . has • not been
discussed at an open meeting of
Tinkertown supporters. • rn.ea,ning, and totally responsible
The reason? There is just too parents that the retarded children
much back-up work to do on the ..!,;,should not be integrated with
project. It is evident that . children of .normal intelligence.
amalgamation ' between That feeling on my part still
Tinkertown and Princess Anne exists...., and once more I dirge
, Nursery School will not fake place parents to visit Princess Anne
before considerable more work Nursery to discover firsthand the
and research is done by both sides kind' of youngster some people
.i,.. and until everyone is fully would keep apa1rt. •
informed about the implications The retarded are with us. They
of -such scheme,• area fact no matter how we shut
It has been suggested, too, that them away. And -there is• not one
parents with children in couple who can be 100 percent
ralrartow�a ra•ve..ctxr
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.tta,,t-thez�•t ,chiId-w ll
to make about the poltible not suffer some form of mental
•amalgamation, should direct retardation.
their thoughts to some member of It was William Faulkner in
.the executive so that Light in August who said:
consideration can be given 'to that "Perhaps Perhaps they were right in
KW _ -dr view •when• 'the first pulling T'bve into hooks �..;.
discussions are held. Perhaps it could not live
+ + + •, , anywhere else."
In last week's Woman to Woman
column, however, I stated that I
was saddened by the attitude
which prevails among some well-
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The entire conference will be -
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May 20 the Ontario A.rovincial
Police will be observing '`Police
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the Goderich Detachment of 'the
O.P.P. have announced they, will
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detachment headquarters Sunday,,
May 14. The detachment offices
are located on Highway 21 south of
Goderich. •
A special deinonstration ,team
of officers will he on hand at that
time, as well .as officers .of the
local detachment,_ to show those
interested, sorne of the various
fields of police work.'
Demonstrations will - include,' a .
Marine and Scuba display.
Motorcycles: Inentific'ation and
Snowmobile displays. These
demonstrations will 'also bei.
taking place ,at detachments
located in Kincardine, Wingham
and Owen Sound at other times
dui ing Police Week. ,
The officers have extended an
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