Wednesday, September 3, 1975
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daily nebraskan
Panel discusses secretarial problems
The "rights" of secretaries and methods
of overcoming what panelists called the
"dehumanization of secretaries" were
featured during the first program of the
1975-76 WomenSpeak series held
Tuesday.
"Too long, secretaries have been viewed
as persons with no brains," according to
Susan Bartow, an eight-year secretary for
Planned Parenthood of Lincoln. She said
receiving no recognition for ideas, doing
jobs she said, a boss could easily do for
himself (such as sharpening pencils) and
being an outlet for what she called the
boss's frustrations are things "secretaries
should not have to put up with."
Carol DeVere, a secretary for the
Nebraska Union Administrative Offices,
said secretaries should "sort out what they
will tolerate" from a boss, and gave an
outline she said are ways for secretaries to
"be their own person."
"A secretary needs to have specific
career goals in mind, such as whether they
will remain in clerical positions, or seek
posts in management," she said.
DeVere stressed what she called the
importance of education not only for job
opportunities, but for personal fulfillment
She said she is currently enrolled in a
program which enables employes to take
Free University courses.
Secretaries should be mobile, and
willing to transfer to different positions
within a company or to another
organization, DeVere said. She said she
thinks a secretary "limits herself' if she
does the same work too long.
DeVere also said it is important for
secretaries to keep notable
accomplishments on file, as a resume for
prospective employers.
Barbara Peters, coordinator of human
resources at Bankers Life Insurance Co., of
Nebraska, said unionization of secretaries is
possible. She said that 98 per cent of
clerical workers are women, and that
women traditionally have been "reluctant
to join labor unions."
She said that a study of women and
labor unions at the University of Illinois
cited lack of concern for problems
exclusive to women such as child care and
paid maternity leave.
Peters said that secretarial unions would
pose problems between secretaries and
their bosses and that it could threaten job
security. She said that those who hoped for
advancement would be less likely to join
unions than career secretaries, as it would
be "hard to transfer loyalties from labor to
management."
u7m' Athletics and Sports
Information-Old and New," with Aileen
Swofford, UNL assistant athletic director
and Jay Davis, UNL women's sports
information director, is the WomenSpeak
topic Sept. 9.
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