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Show Page 36-T- HERALD. Provo. Utah. Sunday. August 22. HE 1982 Liberated Male Easing Homemaker's xGuilt' "i enlightened. Instead of challenging women who had made lives of substance and happiness with husbands and children, it put them on the defensive, made them think they had betrayed not only their womanhood but their selfhood as well." As it happens I agree with Colette. I think every woman ought to have skills which are marketable in the economic world, but not just for insurance purposes. The very process of acquiring those skills is going to make her a more confident and By JIM SANDERSON talk show Colette Dowling, Recently author of "The Cinderella Complex," was really laying it on the line to women: "You're playing Russian roulette if you blindly expect that a man will always be there to support you and your children for the rest of your life." She wasn't harping on the Perfidy of the Male, thank god but simply pointing out that nearly half of the marriages today end in divorce, and men do die much sooner than women. So unless she's planned for it, the only paid job available to a homemaker will be at the entry level maybe at the minimum wage. And that isn't enough to live on. Colette caught a lot of flak from women in the audience who thought she was attacking motherhood. "I knew my mom would always be home when I needed her and that was important to me,' one woman said. "I loved the hot cookies and milk right after school, but it sure went a lot further than that." Another woman said: "I love being a wife and mother. I think it's the most important thing I can do, and I can't spend my life forever worrying about doomsday. If I did I'd be living in a bomb shelter in on a TV - FOR ADDITIONAL SAVINGS ON FOOD mCBS BPFBCWB AU&UST 23, srar SET But maybe it's time we stopped making the classic homemaker feel guilty. Not everybody gets divorced, after all; and very clearly millions of couples have found the road to happiness entirely in the traditional pattern. A very large number of women don't want to and don't have to go out to work; both they and their husbands find tne marital division of labor satisfying and efficient. The idea of career for career's sake seems not only daunting but trendy and even ludicrous, in their individual situations. OK. We are all responsible for our own lives. But what about those of our daughters and the women that our sons will marry? The changes in our society will not go away and even though we confidently opt out, we have an obligation not to impose our own pattern on the next generation. my backyard." Colette's face was a study in exasperated incredulity. Here she was knocking herself out to convince women to look out for their own welfare, and all these women were getting upset about it. "I'm a mother myself and I love it too," she kept repeating. "But that isn't what we're talking about." Time magazine, in analyzing the failure of the ERA, may have put a finger on the problem: "The fierce, early rhetoric of the women's movement boggled many of the same women it should have AU. BEBF SUQBD human being. She will be a wiser and more secure mother, and a happier partner with her husband. When a woman knows his world of work, the eternal gulf between male and female narrows. Her skills also force him to see her in a new light, deal with her more equally and honestly. 25 sir s&e 1 i Dian Thomas Tells Vrjk weem loday' Appearances Dian Thomas has been contract given a one-yewith the NBC "Today" Show. She will appear in 50 segments throughout the year. Her appearances this month will be on Monday, Aug. 23; Wednesday, LUi. jgr rg; raws fe. wf mm ar NEW AT GATSBY'S A w . Announcing the opening of our new department featuring fashions for young girls sizes Aug. 25; and Thursday. Aug. 26. 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