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Sunday, November 3, 1963 A New Champion Os W omen’s Rights By paqutta fine These days men discuss Judge —Lr- Richardson Preyer, Judge Dan Moore, and I Beverly Lake. But most women are more concern ed with Dr. Anne Scott. Dr. Scott isn’t running for any office. She is the chairman of the recently created Governor's Com mission on the Status of Women, and has been charged with re viewing the progress and poten tian of North Carolina women, and possible discrimination against them in employment, state labor laws, vocational training and re training education, and health and wenare programs. . What this boils down to, preju dice and cliche jokes to the con trary, is that women workers simply can’t be “sent back to the kitchen.” One of every ten bread-earners in the nation is a woman. An even greater propor tion contribute to the support of their families. Despite this fact, a woman’s salary for doing the same work as her male co-work er is often less than the man’s. In addition, her salary is often further nicked by a “hidden” de duction: the cost of nursery care or a baby-sitter. Taking these and other things into consideration. Gov. Sanford has requested that Dr. Scott and her committee report findings and recommendations by Jan. 1, 1965 on "necessary actions and services which will enable wom en to carry out their traditional roles within the home while mak ing a maximum contribution to the progress of the state.” It is Dr. Scott’s hope that the commission can have a broad mandate. “I think we are in the midst of what may turn out to be important changes in the lives, ■work and expectations of Ameri can women. Conscious efforts to shape these changes may lead to their being more socially use ful .. . We are living in a curi cus situation in which leisure— and unemployment—are increas ing at the same time that much vital work is not being done be cause trained and motivated peo ple are not available. Gov. San ford’s administration has attack ed many of the needs of North Carolina. What this Commission might do is help tap one of the most important of our unused re sources: trained and talented women who, because of outmod ed social custom or lack of knowl edeg of ways and means, are now, in a socially productive sense, idle . , . State’s responsibilities seem to me a more useful dea than state’s rghts.” Dr. Scott is a resident of Chap el Hill and a Duke University his tory professor. She is married to Andrew Scott, a professor of Political Science at UNC. A native of Montezuma, Ga., Anne Firor grew up in Athens, Ga. Although she has no trace of a limp today and is an ex cellent tennis player, most of ■0 PARKAS Cold weather is bound to come sooner or later. Don’t be caught guessing because it can drop to aero overnight. Get ready with a wool par ka, with or without fur lin ing. In beautiful plaids. FVom $10.95 larattg Mm's Moor 147 E. matte at Flight Training ZENITH AVIATION announces complete Aeronautical Courses leading to FAA Certificates. • PRIVATE PILOT • MULTI-ENGINE RATING • COMMERCIAL PILOT • INSTRUMENT RATING Equipment Aircraft— Crowd School CESSNA 172 BANDERSON AUDIO-VISUAL Trait* AMa For Enrollment and Farther Information DIAL 942-1740 Anytime DR. ANNE SCOTT her childhood was spent with a steel brace on her leg as the re sult of an accident. "When that brace came off,” she said, “I MADE myself into a tennis play er.” She also played basketball in high school and edited the high school newspaper. At the University of Georgia, she received the Alpha Lambda Delta prize for the highest aver age in the 1938 freshman class, the Chi Omega prize for highest average among women students in 1939, the Bert Michael prize for the highest average in the junior class, 1940. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Mortar Board. She was mana ger and member of the Women’s Debate team, staff member of the colege newspaper, and president of The Pioneer Club, a woman's public affairs organization. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1941. She received her MA in politi cal science from Northwestern University in 1944. “Then I went to Washington during the war as an ‘intern’ in the Rocekfeller spon sored program for training col lege graduates for public serv ice,” she said. “I was placed with Congressman Voorhis from California—a great man, not just a ‘talking’ liberal—and I became quite excited about politics just working with him. In fact, I be came so interested in politics that l stayed on in Washington for years doing all sorts of jobs for the national office of the League of Women Voters. “Washington was a very edu cational experience during the war—really the capital of the world for awhile, the allied world, anyway. It gave me some idea of how much there was that I didn't know. In 1946 I began to think about going back to school, and when Andy (her husband) came along and said, ‘Come marry me and go to Harvard’ I thought that was a good package deal. He was already enrolled on the GI bill, and I asked Radcliffe for a scholarship—so, between the two, and my dowry of two bicycles, and a graduate students’ coopera tive house where six of us cook ed dinner every night with one stove and and two extra burners, we made ends meet until he had his Ph.D. and I was on the road to mine.” She received her Ph.D. in 1958 from Radcliffe. The Scotts went back to Wash ington in 1950. Mr. Scott worked briefly for the CIA and then join ed the Marshall Plan staff. Dur ing this period, their daughter, Becky, was born and Mrs. Scott decided to be just a housewife and write her thesis. The lure of public affairs proved too strong. “I went back to the League of Women Voters part-time to be their Congressional Representa tive, which is a modest type of lobbyist,” she said. ‘This was great fun, but I had to spend a lot of time thinking up explana tions for my Harvard professor as to why the chapters on my thesis weren’t being written. I’d probably be thinking up explana tions yet if Andy hadn’t been off ered an appointment at Dart mouth. By the time the thesis was completed, Andy had moved us to Haverford College, where just at the strategic moment the American historian went on leave and willed me his job for a year. “When we came to Carolina in 1958 we had three children, Rebec ca, David, and Donald, and I had decided the time really had come for me to be a housewife, at least until the youngest was in school. That lasted four months. Fletcher Green called one day and asked me if I would like to teach history at UNC and I said ‘Yes, I’d love to.’ “In 1860, Andy had a Futbright, so we all went kit and caboodle to Italy. Lice Washington during the war, it taught n» again how much I didn’t know. #s especial ly good for an American histor ian to live for a while where nothing is very old that has been around less than six or eight hundred years. A year in Europe gives perspective on everything from American food and Ameri can schools to the whole struc ture of our society and govern ment. "While we were in Italy, a good friend on the history staff at Duke —we used to baby-sit for him in graduate school and Andy had taught his three boys to tumble, with disastrous results for the living room couch—put my name in for an opening over there. Since we were thousands of miles away, he could say anything he liked without fear that I’d ap pear in the flesh and undermine tile build-up, so I got the job. Fortunately, I don’t like football, so having the family divided be tween Duke and UNC is relatively peaceful. Asked about her hobbies, she replied. “Tennis, gardening and politics in reverse order. I can remember when I learned tennis and took up gardening, but I can’t remember when 1 first got interested in politics—it goes back too far. I know I was a strong partisan in the 1932 presidential race—l was for Hoover and I re member my father explaining very carefully that members of his family had been voting for Dem ocrats at least since Thomas Jeff erson and he wanted me to know low radical my stand was. I don’t know whether it was his lecture or the unassailable facts of the situation, but I've been a pretty good Democrat since then.” Mrs. Scott is presently writing a book on the changing role, of worn men in the South. A “bonus" of this undertaking has been her in terviews with some of the veter ans of the women’s suffrage days. “None of them are less than 80. Their minds are clear as bells and they’re very much aware of what is going on to day.” As chairman of the Commission on the Status of Women, Mrs. Scott has outlined some of the lines that the commission might pursue: 1. To find out, as a beginning, where we are. How many N. C. women work away from home? How many are heads of families? How many are unemployed or on relief? How many married, single, widowed or divorced? What kinds of jobs do they hold and at what rates of pay? The Greensboro Daily News on July 24 reported that the median in come of working women in the South is about half that of work ing men. Is this true in North Carolina, and if so does it reflect discriminatory pay scales? What about working conditions of wom en? The starting point for inves tigation should be as complete a picture of the present situation as possible. 2. A thoughtful analysis of the work women are now doing in voluntary associations might re veal something of the degree to which community functions are performed by volunteers and would provide the necessary ba sis for thinking about the ways in which some of our pressing corn unity needs might be met by more effective voluntary organization. Part of this should be an ef fort to determine which of our community and state problems might be effectively dealt with if the talents of trained women, professional or volunteer, could be h< *3ught to bear. 3. To examine the State civil service to discover how well it uses trained and competent wom en. This might be extended to c representative sample of local governments as well. 4. A significant proportion of North Carolina women are Ne groes, and it would be important to examine carefully the prob lems which face these women at borne and at work. 5. To encourage educational in- HOUSING AUTHORITY The Chapel Hill Housing Au thority will meet tomorrow night at 8 in the conference room of Home Savings and Loan Associa tion. Authority executive secre tary Mrs. Sarah Rains will re port on the meeting she attended in Charleston, S. C„ last month of die Carol mas Council of Hous ing and Redevelopment Officials. Hie Authority will review and discus* progress made to date on the preliminary steps toward ac quisition of a site for low-rent housing in Chapel Hill. (2ve to the Community Chest. r THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY stitutions in the State to take a fresh look at the question of educational opportunities for women outside the rang? of nor mal college age. What opportuni ites are new available, and what should be available, for the wom an between 30 and 45 who wants to improve her education and competence? 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Bur ris will sing "Holy, Holy, Holy,” by Gounod, with Don McCarson. teror as soloist Mrs Crawford L. Taylor, Jr., will be at the organ. At 6:30 p.m., the Training Union and Discussion groups will meet. The Student Forum will hear Dr. Bernard Boyd of the Department of Religion, UNC discuss “Bibli cal Criticism." The Adult Group will continue its discussion on “Evangelism" led by Logan Wright. The Evening Service will be gin at 7:45 p.m. A nursery is maintained at each of these serv ices for pre-school children. Give to the Community Chest. Three professors in the University School of Medicine are among the contributors to a newly published book consid ered the mast comprehensive and authoritative work on kid ney diseases available today. Dr. Louis G. Welt, professor of medicine at UNC? is a con tributor and co-ed ito” of the book. “Diseases of the Kidney.” Other UNC contributors are Dr. Walter Hollander Jr. and Dr. T. 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