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Monday, January 23, 1984,
Daily Nebraskan
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Lincoln women's forum: 'getting . political
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Self-worth, pay equity and political
.. power were the major themes of the
VYomanpowcr Conference Saturday at
the Cornhusker Square Convention
Center.
, More than 400 women and a hand
ful of men attended the day-long event
sponsored by the Nebraska Commis
sion on the Status of Women and-21 ,
ether women's organizations.
Keynote speaker Nancy Perlman,
founder and executive director of the
Center for Women in Government at
the State University of' New York at
Albany, centered her address on the
importance of achieving pay equity for
women.
Presently, women have "a lack of
economic power," Perlman said. Estab
lishing equal pay for comparable work
will change this, Perlman said.
"Women with, four years of college
earn on the average as much as men
with one to three years of high school,"
Perlman said. .
In 1930, women in Nebraska earned
an average of 60 cents for every dollar
that men earned, Perlman said. Among
Nebraska state employees, women earn
' about $4,700 less than male employees,
she said.
In 1970, Perlman said, white women
earned 83 percent of what men earned
Strict rules
apply to all
text returns
Ey Cfcrfs Chests
The first week of the
new semester began with
a familiar sight . stu
dents waiting in long lines
at crowded bookstores,
buying needed books. The
lines still exist, but now
the students are return
ing books.
The time to make re
turns is now: the Univer
sity Bookstore will accept
returns through Jan. 27
and the Nebraska Book
store through Jan. 28. The
return policies for both
stores are similar both
require sales receipts.
Cheryl Davis, text ma
nager at University Book
store, said the store
checked the return poli
cies of several college book
stores in other areas be-.
fore adopting its present
policy. For most, of course,
the policy of taking re
turns during the first two
weeks of a semester and
requiring receipts worked
best, Davis said.
The policy's problem:
lost or discarded receipts.
Although the bookstore
sometimes accepts can
celed checks o proof of
purchase, Davis said, it is
best to save the receipt.
This way, she said, there
is no confusion and the
fuU amount of the pur
ch: s can bs returned.
- IvIzrkOppcrd, general
raanar of Nebraska
Boosters said the pol
icy is fair. Oppegard said
students should know if
they need the books. Also,
he said, Nebraska Book
store has a limited return
time to its venders.
Besides receipts,' Op-
pegard said students must
return books in the same
condition they were pur
chased to get a full refund.
No marks should be made
and the sticker should be
. left on if possible.
If students dont return
boo! 3 wiuiln the givin time,
both bookstores encour-'
age them to save the books .
until the end of the se
mester. These books will .
' then be considered used
and students will receive
partial refunds.
and in 1980, that gap had widened to
83 percent.
- Evidence exists that shows bias in
the salary-setting process, Perlman
said.
Job evaluation studies can deter
mine if wages of female-dominated
jobs reflect the value of the jobs or the
status of the women holding them,
Perlman said.
Of 427 classified occupations, 10 are
women-dominated.
Many ofthese have been undereval
uated by the job evaluation studies,
she said.
LB700, which would establish a
commission to do a comparable job
study in Nebraska, was voted out of
committee at the Legislature late
Friday.
In a system where "a parking lot
attendant earns more than a secre
tary, a sign painter more than a regis
tered nurse, a dog catcher more than a
nursery school teacher," Perlman said,
"intuitively, I think we taiow something
is wrong."
Perlman said myths concerning com
parable work and equal pay for equal
work exist in job evaluation systems.
They are:
Setting salaries cant be done by
comparing dissimilar jobs.
- Establishing comparable salaries
would interfere with the free market
system.
It will cost too much to pay female
co-workers what their jobs are worth.
Perlman rebutted these myths and
said the evaluation systems should be
redesigned to be free from bias.
Actually, she said, the cost of litiga
tion to resolve pay equity suits "makes
it much more expensive to the employer
than paying fair wages." This has been
demonstrated in Minnesota and Wash
ington, she said.
Perlman urged Nebraskans to "get
political, educate, think broadly and
build coalitions, build short and long
term strategies for achieving compar
able work.
"It is important to become policy
leaders," Perlman said.
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