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Show You may not call it the result of Female Liberation, but women have made their mark on Model life is essential for Model Cities to be a success. They are active on the task Cities. forces - many serving as chairmen and they sit on the Coordinating active Council. Of the forty-si- x It's not a telltale dishwater stain or a lipstick smudge, but the mark of a job well done. In few organizations are women so well represented, and have so unique an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution, as in Model Cities. Women in the Salt Lake community seized their opportunity to get involved from the very start of Model Cities and today maintain a vital role in both the decision-makin- g process and the project activites. children and the mother not as high more active vocationally then that projects funded by Model Cities, ten are directed by women. This percentage as some other Model Cities programs, but it is a good beginning. is is a One female task force member said,"Women should utilize their talents and potentials. She should be interested and active in her lifestyle is accepted and there is no embarrassment or bad feelings on either side. One of Ms. Whitmer's big e desires is to see more people become involved in their community. "It's hard though ," she said, "when you have to work 1 2 hours a day at a low paying job just to be able to support a family and then still try to be helpful in your neighborhood." low-incom- community." Women were actively involved in the formation of the Salt Lake Model Cities program and several participated on the ad hoc committee and the first Model Cities Board. They include Phyllis Southwick, Helen Ure, Katherine Washko Sister Ann Josephine, Esther Landa, Judith Whitmer, Shirley Langly, Katherine Washko, Lorna Lee and Sunday Anderson. male is unfamiliar with her ability, he will test her with some it seemed, Traditionally, questions about these roles. Professional positions such as agency directorships nearly always went to men; men, too, were usually the ones who made the decisions about where the money went and for what. True, the movement toward the "female liberation" of the 1960's switched a great deal of emphasis on the roles of women in their homes and in society. Women began to take what they now considered their rightful place along side men in the world of work and politics. - pu women's movement She feels that it is very important that more women get Katherine Washko, involved in community programs because "they seem to care more and have more time to do such of the Housing T ask Force, has been a resident of the model neighborhood all of her life and knows the needs of the things." Judge Judith Whitmer i Jurate Hayes - -- Cities and these new and experienced female leaders have become partners and the results have been beautiful. In Model Cities,a participation is not limited to few of one race, age or sex. In fact, the involvement of those from all sectors of community in Lake. bl cized brought even more into focus recently with the national conventions has been booed and praised. Some think that agressiveness in a woman is unfeminine, that her place is in the home. Others, however, feel that women must seek out her own place - do "her own thing" be it on the job, on the platform or on the ballot. It might be said that Model which was instrumental establishing the program in Salt so-call- The much a particular project, but once she proves her responsibility the testing period is over and everything works out O.K. men were usually left to function in westside area. She is also very active in the Westside Council as well as serving on the Emergency Home Repair project committee. Katherine was also a member of the first board of Model Cities Judge Judith Whitmer has been very active in community affairs and in helping to identify in the community. Her problems activity led her to serve on the first board of Model Cities in 1969. From there she left her private practice as an attorney and became a Juvenile Court Judge. Whitmer stated that she would encourage other women to help with community problems if their desires led them in that direction but that they should develop their talents and abilities in every way possible. She stated that in Sweden if the father is Ms. more competent with the You may have been aware of many of the new park developments in the model neighborhood, such as the Decker Lake development. Jurate Hayes W'V'i' works for the County Recreation Department as architect and a landscape responsible for much of the planning and development of these facilities. In the two and a half years that Ms. Hayes has worked as an is f V"' opportunity to work with many people, both men and women. She said that men are beginning to trust women more when they hold responsible jobs such as she does. Once in awhile when some 'J , architect she has had the k '' ' ( ,,,$ 'f'' " S r. ;ife 4f ' M V y. : yjv " |