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Show CHAMBER CORNER Wmm am pntect but mwequaP cause to doubt that they will be protected. He continued by adding that sexual harrassment on the job often goes unreported by women also, for fear of career risk. He recalled re-called recent events in the St. George police department. "Do you think things are great on the job for those two women?" he qucrried. DR. NORMAN also reported the lac k of correctional aid for women criminals. Men receive programs for varied career improvement, while women inmates are trained (if at all) for typically stereotyped jobs-waitress, secretary, clerk, etc. Norman concluded by challenging challeng-ing members to get involved in the political process--"take some risks." He suggested socializing daughters to become more aggressive aggres-sive and strong, and working with sons to become more alert to the problems of our society, and respectful re-spectful of others. "Knock down the doors to 'all-male" clubs. ..and let men into your 'Women In Management Man-agement Council'!" he offered. THE NEXT Women in Management Manage-ment meeting will be May 8 at the Red Flame Restaurant at noon. Featured Fe-atured speaker is Sister Stephanie Mongeonof St. Benedict's Hospital. Hospit-al. vho will address the topic "Shaping Up for Spring." New members are welcome. Please RSVP to Barbara Tolman at 298-0087 298-0087 by Tuesday. May 6. The second meeting of the Bountiful Boun-tiful Area Chamber of Commerce Women in Management Council was held April 10 at the Oakridge Country Club. Featured speaker was Dr. M.D. Norman, member of the Department of Criminal Justice, Jus-tice, Weber State College. He addressed the topic, "Women Under the Law: Protected but Unequal." Un-equal." DR. NORMAN opened his remarks re-marks by pointing out that women have been inherently unequal under the law due to the fact that lawmakers, in general, have been and are wealthy white males. Women, he noted, were considered consi-dered "property" in legal terms until 1971, and many laws reflect this view. He stressed that women are not well-represented even now in law-making bodies, and that a responsibility lies within the group to see that their voice is heard, not so much as a "feminist" voice, but to enlarge the information and input in-put prior to passage of any law. The professor then addressed the aspect of women's protection under criminal law. He stressed that a major crime against women is beating within the home. Only half of the beatings that ever occur are even reported, let alone prosecuted, prose-cuted, he noted. NORMAN ALSO discussed the notion that women are becoming "more criminal." He underscored the fact that patterns of female crime have not altered "all that significantly." sig-nificantly." and that 'we are not a nation of violent criminals, we are a nation of violent myth!' Dr. Norman suggested that young women be "socialized" in a manner similar to young men. He mentioned that women are taught to be passive rather than agressive concerning themselves, and this increases in-creases the chance that they will become victims of crime. HE ALSO discussed the problems prob-lems of rape and sexual harrassment harrass-ment in our society. He mentioned that a recent study of raped women who did not report the crime gave their main reasons as follows: first, they feared retaliation, and second, they feared the "thrcat-ment" "thrcat-ment" they would receive from "authorities." Norman noted that these fears suggest a lack of faith in our legal system. Women seem to have |