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Show Page 8 Wednesday, February 9, 1977 xpectiaflooini S urn on air M Kimball Art Center ). This is the second part of our series on the Equal Rights Amendment, a critical issue which we are facing this year. "Equality of rights under the law shall not .be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Will the ERA wipe out the right of a woman a. her children to be supported by her husband? No. The ERA would require that any support be written in a sex-neutral fashion-that support flow from the spouse who needs it. In most cases, this means help will run from the husband to tne wife and children. No spouse who needs support sup-port would be denied it as a result of the ERA... Opponents of the ERA say that courts would invalidate nonconforming support laws, leaving needy women and children bereft of support. sup-port. This is not true. The ERA legislative history on support laws unequivocally states, 'Where one spouse is the primary wage earner and the other runs the home, the wage earner would have a duty to support the spouse who stays at home in compensation for the performance perfor-mance of her or his duties.' (Senate Judiciary Committee's Majority Report, as reprinted in the Congressional Record, March 22, 1972.) Will the ERA strengthen the economic rights of homemakers? Yes. Most people do not realize how inadequate homemakers' support rights have been in fact under the existing legal system. While spouses are living together, women cannot go to court to get adequate support; this right matures only upon separation or divorce. The right to periodic alimony or cb-sjpDO', .payments is often meaningless because husbands frequently default and enforcement is difficult. And proper-. ty acquired during the marriage is often left entirely en-tirely in the hands of the husband who has been the sole breadwinner and has placed all property in his own name. Courts refuse to look beyond the formal title, in part because the wife's contributions con-tributions in the areas of homemaking and child-rearing child-rearing to the marriage are viewed as economically valueless. Reform associated with the ERA has led already and will lead to new laws based on the concept that in marriage man depends on woman fully as much as woman depends on man. Accordingly, these laws provide not only mm The GAZEBO total hair care salon VALENTINE SPECIAL: CUT, STYLE, SHAMPOO, SET WITH CONDITIONER $.750 (ONE WEEK ONLY) PERMANENTS Regular $25.00 NOW $15.00 Professional hair styling for both men & women 649-9501 444 Main Hi-Si JERRY FRKOVICH 3 (TO for maintenance or support, but also for an equitable division of property should the marriage break down. This means that even in a noncommunity property state, a husband cannot secure his assets against his wife's claim to a fair share simply by putting the property (house, securities, bank account) in his own name. Rather, we may expect to see for the first time throughout the nation, recognition of the very real contribution both spouses make to the marriage, whether their activity is inside the home or outside it. What about coed bathrooms? The ERA is superceded by the 'Right to Privacy' laws.. ..the ERA will not require sex-integrated bathrooms, nor will it require sex integration in any public facility in which people engage in personal per-sonal bodily functions. Thus, separation would be permitted in sleeping facilities such as dormitories, dor-mitories, as well as rest rooms, locker rooms, and public showers. Will women be drafted under the ERA? If a draft is reinstated, women will be subject to it just as men are. Exemptions for child or other dependent-care responsibilities, physical incapacity, and hardship will be available to women as well as to men. Women fully qualified to do so could serve in combat units; they would be subject to physical-fitness standards for such service as stringent as those applicable to men. Under the ERA, women will have equal opportunity oppor-tunity to enlist in the armed forces, and to receive valuable job training, educational benefits, medical benefits, retirement benefits, and all employment preferenced accorded veterans. Currently, service opportunities for women who seek them are far more limited than for men. Will ERA require private clubs, churches, and othe private groups to cease any sex-discriminatory sex-discriminatory practices? No. The ERA applies only to actions of the government. Will the ERA affect the legal status of abortion? No. The Supreme Court reached its decisions in the abortion cases based upon principles, now contained in the Constitution. The ERA would neither add to nor detract from those decisions. YOU CAN HELP. If you believe that women and men should be treated as equals under the law; if you believe that sex-role stereotyping must end; if you believe that your daughters and sons, sisters and brothers should have the same opportunity to develop and aspire ; if you believe that all human beings are entitled to make their own life decisions free from government direction of the ways males and females should behave, then you should support the ERA ! This article has been excerpted from the ERA Pamphlet prepared by Kathleen Willert Peratis and Susan Deller Ross, national staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.) 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However, facts show that six out of ten young women will work outside out-side their homes for 30 years or more and full-time women workers earn only 57 per cent of what men earn. Under the direction of the Utah Governor's Commission Com-mission on the Status of Women, the seminar has been organized by English teacher Miss Christine Sproul with the heto of several local women. To start the seminar a small group discussion game entitled "When I Grow Up I'm Going to be Married" will be directed by Brenda Hancock, program chairman chair-man for the Governor's Commission on the Statud of Women. The following local women will lead the groups: Kathy Wilking, Melanie Louis, Meg O'Shaughnessy, Laurie Tisch, Donna Markle, Amy Hamlin, Roberta Eickman, Tracy Zweig, and DotiMarden Following the small group discussions, Beth Gurrister, chairperson of the Governor's Gover-nor's Commission, will keynote a panel discussion on "The Changing Role of Women." 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