| Show F8 LIFESTYLES The Salt Lake Tribune Survivor excels despite valleys and because of peaks llommy Track' author has been catalyst for change in workplace By Lisa Anderson CHICAGO In the '90s when it comes to women and work the pivotal issue comes down to "babies ba- bies babies" Such a statement probably will go down like colic among the politically correct set But if Felice Schwartz ever gave a hoot about political correctness she clearly doesn't anymore at least where it concerns women in the workplace Schwartz the instigator of the rancorous 1989 debate over a "mommy track" for professional women is the president and founder of Catalyst a nonprofit organization that works with top US corporations on women's issues and helps develop women in management In this Catalyst's 30th anniversary year Schwartz is calling for no less than a "second revolution" to break down the final barriers against women's success in the workplace and to wake up American firms to the new facts of corporate and economic life "First of all we need a second revolution The first revolution brought women into business and the professions" Schwartz says "Now we need a revolution that will bring women into the mainstream of corporate and professional life into the leadership pool" Directing a staff of 40 and an annual budget of $25 million she sits in an airy New York office decorated with photos of her three children and four women into business and the professions Now we need a revolution that will bring women into the mainstream of corpo- cartoons such as one depicting her tied to the "mommy track" as a trainload of feminists gleefully bears down "The second point is there is a conspiracy of silence that prevents us from putting the issues on the table" she says The conspiracy revolves around maternity and parenthood — subjects she says that have been "relegated to the purgatory of the inappropriate" by women and their employers "Unless we put them on the table we can't analyze them and we can't address them We will just continue in the way we are with a deepening sense of discouragement on the part of employers and of frustration and anger on the part of women "My third point is there are solutions Let's analyze the men Schwartz found herself reviled by women who interpreted her call for corporations to afford greater flexibility to women as a betrayal and admission that women just weren't as good as men "What I really wanted to do there" Schwartz says "was break through this monolithic thinking on the part of corpora- problems because today employers" added encouragement Schwartz who plans to retire as president of Catalyst next year has left a detailed and compelling blueprint for the revolu tion in Breaking With Tradition: Woman and Work and the New Facts of Life (Warner As Books $2195) Biology isn't destiny but it is reality "You know the feminist movement started in the correct way: 'Women are as good as men' But they aren't the same as men I violated what is politically correct today which is 'Women are just - like men' My point is if we say that we're lost" Moreover it is a crucial economic reality that women and their employers must deal with Schwartz says So why babies? Why now? According to Schwartz "Un til babies babies babies have a place on the business agewla - we will all continue to fail "I think men think of women and as soon as they think 'women' they think 'babies' and as - soon as they think babies they : think of lack of commitment" In other words women are - expected to quit an assumption : that precludes investment in 7 their development for top management positions : "All women are suspect: the single woman the woman who doesn't have children but who is married the woman who has children but puts her career - - g same goal Beyond basic benefits some firms are taking new approaches to fast-trac- k employees who may need a respite before rejoining the race to the top This spins off the concept with which Schwartz sparked such controversy in 1989 "the mommy track- Although she never used the term in the Harvard Business Review article that started it all Women and the New Facts of Life") it became synonymous in the press with a corporate wimping out by wo- grandchildren and editorial there's nothing that works for women that doesn't work for — Felice Schwartz full-tuitio- full-tim- e I - 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are inside and our contribu- we serves on the advisory council to the ombudsman under the State Division of Aging and Adult Services and on the consumer relations committee for Utah Health Care Association "I stick my nose in wherever possible" She thinks nursing homes are the wave of the future as the population ages and more people GREAT 0 aM Ms Holmes wants to see segregated nursing homes: lucid patients living together and those with Alzheimer's disease or dementia together Ms Holmes likes to grocery shop "I don't have to now as all my meals are prepared I enjoy just going into the grocery store But then I like any kind of shopping And I enjoy the symphony concerts ballet and plays" In a tribute to his mother Dennis J Holmes Sandy says she showed "by example that the real purpose of life is not what we have in worldly goods but what Ms Holmes who was chosen for "Who's Who in Utah Nursing Homes" for 1992 said her philosophy is "We live eternally only through what we give If we don't help others we haven't left much of ourselves here" She paints with watercolors and teaches the art She has produced more than 150 paintings and does greeting cards She teaches art classes at South Valley and at Sandy Regional Care Center nearby Ms Holmes is active in her church is South Valley STYLES T live" former" ": -- with disabilities need help "There are 80000 elderly in Utah now and that figure will double by 2000 Nursing homes must offer quality care But these needs require planning now before it's done by regulation Nursing homes need to get the word out that they can help people 9 her" : 0 ------- ---- i! r 17 ) ''' moowww 0 LfP' ' rt 1 -- (blow 400 f --- ' 4""4'"6"9:411011W1111— C1 - 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"Not in this decade although we'll come much closer" she says But if her health continues as well as it has bhe says she hopes to see it happen in her lifetime blaciiLtaceetci ' ' A ' SC:4i°' U - k n 0 F f ' ' e The London headquarters of the original British women's suffrage society Fawcett Hall is in danger of being torn down unless Project W an alliance of 220 British women's groups wins its battle to register the building as a historical landmark The brick building built in the 1920s as headquarters for the suffragettes is named after Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett a major force helping British women workplace" Will that ever happen? : f ' CHICAGO TRIBUNE half-tim- e - 4 1 London group battles city hall to make British suffrage headquarters a landmark half-tim- e - - f two-yea- In the midst of all the brouhaha however apparently at least one major corporation got the message Catalyst honored the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co in 1991 for a new program that allows any employee male or female to for up choose to work to three years before returning on a basis and on equal footing for a partnership This is a boon not only to the returning new mother but also to any employee who anticipates a need to handle personal demands such as an invalid parent for a limited period The crucial part of this equation according to Schwartz is not the "definition of as half the number of hours but as half the client load a measure of productivity rather than simply of time" In this time of transition Schwartz says the Andersen program is a symbol of the changes that must occur if women and the country at large are to prosper After retiring from Catalyst Schwartz plans to continue writing and speaking on problems facing working women Her goal she says is "to make gender no longer an issue in the ra I welfare-departme- tions" --o ' 44 a "I enjoy living in a nursing home It's the least restrictive environment I can imagine If I lived with my children for example I'd be living their lives by their rules This way I can live my life by my own rules" Her smile and eyes are warm: her deep voice booms with authority and strength Ms Holmes was born in New York state 61 years ago She dropped out of high school in the 10th grade to help her mother run a family grocery store She soon married and moved to California When her third child was 7 months old her husband asked for a divorce The children's father did not provide financial support Ms Holmes and her children went to Albion in south central Idaho to be near her mother and stepfather The children's grandmother cared for them while Ms Holmes worked and lived at the LaMoyne Hotel in Burley 18 miles away Finishing her hotel shift she would cross the street to Boyd's Cafe to earn 65 cents an hour waiting tables Days off she visited her children "When I left the kids would cry and I would cry" Two jobs were the norm until Ms Holmes' mother went to work and could no longer care for the children Ms Holmes stopped working and went on welfare $122 a month The family rented a house in Albion for $15 a month plus utilities she laughs To keep busy Ms Holmes helped her elderly neighbors and taught her children the meaning of the word charity The Holmes family cleaned houses built fires shoveled coal into furnace hoppers hauled ashes mowed lawns At Thanksgiving they baked Christmas cookies delivered from a wagon the youngsters pulled When Ms Holmes' youngest started school she got approval to finish school high graduating at age 30 She received two small scholarr Magic Valships to the Albion ley Christian College graduating with 82 credit hours every class the college offered and a 40 grade point average With her professors' recommendations she applied to seven colleges ("Some were biggies") scholand was offered of its six at Because proxarships imity Ms Holmes chose Brigham Young University earning a BS first the woman who has children but puts her children first or is committed to both They're all suspectAs Schwartz sees it in a labor force that is half female maternity and parenthood are the new realities American business must deal with if it is to compete globally But American business according to Schwartz has taken only baby steps toward policies that manage maternity recognize parenthood and integrate work and family Childbearing itself isn't the problem she writes in her book noting that it is "relatively predictable and it is finite" which conIt's cerns both parents and that corporations must address Firms need not just have realistic policies on maternity and childcare Schwartz says but also need to introduce flextime without penalty and new career paths that lead to the child-rearin- t' gives rate and professional life into the leadership - AW WEST JORDAN — If Vivian June Holmes wrote her life's story the title should be "The Survivor" Ms Holmes a quadriplegic living at the South Valley Care Center makes the best of what life first revolution brought pool" - By Barbi Robison TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE "First of all we need a second revolution The TRIBUNE Sunday June 28 1992 SOUTH OGDEN 3295 Withinoton Blvd N 4e -- IN - ' ' 4 '4 ‘ '( RID erslogrom4pggroTelymotNok o r |
