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thursday, October 5, 1978 lincoln, nebraska vol. 102 no. 23
Report says number of women in labor force is up
The number of Nebraska women in the
labor force has increased, but most work
ing women are predominately employed
in lower paying, traditional women's jobs,
according to a report by a division of the
Nebraska Commission on the Status of
Women.
The report, entitled "Profile of
Nebraska Women in Employment" was
released last week by the Women's Em
ployment Opportunities Division of the
Commission.
While the number of females in the
Nebraska population has increased, there
has been an "even greater increase in the
number of females in the labor force"
according to the report.
However, women represent "only 17.7
percent of professional and technical
workers," while 75 percent of clerical
workers and 44.4 percent of sales workers
are women, the report said.
Few women supervisors
Although 63 percent of Nebraska
school employees are women, they rep
resent only one percent of the supervis
ors and assistant supervisors, and 15
percent of the principals and assistant
principals.
Sixty-seven percent of the teachers
in Nebraska are women, but only 3C
percent are considered "supervising
teachers," the report said. However.
57 percent of the directors and super
visors of school programs are women.
The report also contains informa
tion about women enrolled at post
secondary institutions. At state universi
ties, women comprise 45 percent of
those enrolled in bachelor's degree pro
grams, 46 percent of those in master's
degree programs and 25 percent of the
candidates for professional degrees.
State colleges
At state colleges, the figures are higher.
Women constitute 54 percent of those in
bachelor's degree programs and 66 percent
of students in master's degree programs.
Figures were not available for professional
degree candidates.
Women enrolled at private institutions
make up half of students in bachelor's
degree programs, 38 percent of those in
master's degree programs, and 15 percent
of professional degree candidates,
according to the report.
The percentage of women employed in
teaching positions in post-secondary insti
tutions decreases as the job title increases
in seniority and prestige. For example, at
state universities women make up 42
percent of the instructors, 32 percent of
the assistant professors, 14 percent of the
associate professors, and 7 percent of the
full professors. Also, 7 percent of depart
ment chairpersons are women.
Female department heads rare
Women teaching at state colleges are
37 percent of the instructors, 12 percent
of the assistant professors, seven percent
of the associate professors and eight per
cent of the full professors. None are
department chairpersons.
Those women who teach at private
institutions comprise 64 percent of the
instructors, 27.5 percent of assistant
professors, 12 percent of all associate
professors, and six percent of full pro
fessors, the report said. In addition, they
make up 16 percent of the department
chairpersons.
In administrative positions, women
make up 27 percent at state universities, 1 7
percent at state college are women, and 32
percent at private institutions.
At UNL, "participation by women (stu
dents) in agriculture, business, engineering,
and law is increasing," the report said. The
percentage of women enrolled in the Ag
riculture College increased from 8.1
percent in 1973 to 17 J percent in 1977.
Similarly, women students in the
College of Business Administration and the
law college increased from 13.1 percent to
26.3 percent, and from 14.7 percent to
28.1 percent, respectively.
The percentage of women enrolled in
the engineering college increased from
almost 2 percent to 5:9 percent in the five
year span covered by the report.
According to the report, "the university
experienced a 16 percent growth in the stu
dent body (in this period of time), due
entirely to more women seeking a college
education."
ASUN committee lists options
of new student impact system
By Pat Gentzler
A tentative proposal drawn up by
ASUN's internal affairs committee listing
alternatives for creating a new system of
student impact on university policies was
discussed at ASUN's meeting, Wednesday
night, but no action was taken.
The proposal establishes four ASUN
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The extremes carried out by the ardent baseball fan. Redecoration of the Seileck-Quadrangle TV room drove dormitory
students outside to catch the second game of the New York-Kansas City playoff series.
Union Board votes funds for improvements
By Lucy Bighia
The Union Board Wednesday voted to
recommend a total of $214,476 in expend
itures for renovations and improvements to
the City and East Unions to Richard
Armstrong, vice chancellor of student
affairs.
The Union Board was reinstated as an
ad hoc committee by ASUN President Ken
Marienau for this meeting to make the
annual fund requests. Its report should
have been turned in to the vice chancellor
Oct. 2. but an extension was granted until
Oct. 6. board president Mark Knobel said.
Tht; board requested :
$40,235 for food service equipment,
most of which was purchased in 1957 or
1969:
S25.O50 for operations which would be
used for office equipment, plants, tools
and stage equipment :
$41,500 for administrative equipment
such as typewriters, calculates, and com
puters; $1,570 for Campus Activities and
Programs on city campus for new furnish
ings and equipment, and $4,050 for CAP
on East Campus;
Approximately $3,500 for a crafts
program and workshop in the East Union;
$123,150 for equipment in both unions;
$42,776 for refurnishing the unions;
$29,050 for building repairs and modif
ications; and
$19,500, a 10 percent contingency fund
mandated by the NU Board of Regents.
The board also received a request from
the president of the Panhellenic society to
reduce rental rates for the room used in
Greek yearbook photography, and to lower
the rent from $100 to $50 a day.
The board then decided to ask
Armstrong if the Touche Ross audit of
union management would be made public.
Touche Ross is scheduled to receive the
report by Oct. 15.
Union Director. Al Bennett, said he has
no reluctance to have the entire report
made public and reported fully in the
press. "Piecemeal" coverage of the report
would not be welcomed because it provides
for "maximum misunderstanding poten
tial," he said.
Bennett said he withdrew all business
from the Union Board last week in order to
protect himself from later criticism. He
didn't want it said that he tried to "bull
doze" the board's key financial business of
the year past an unseated committee, he
said.
Knobel said he did not know whether
the board stiD would be an ad hoc commit
tee of ASUN after the meeting, but said
the question was irrelevant because ASUN
would have resolved the problem before
the next scheduled meeting.
commissions to recommend student
government policy in the areas that have
been previously covered by the committee
structure from which ASUN last week
recalled - all student members, and lists
alternatives for two special cases, Union
Board and Council on Student Life.
Among the alternatives listed for both
groups is making them agencies of ASUN.
Other Union Board alternatives are
marking the board a management policy
making board, and possible composition
changes including staff member voting
privileges and replacing the at4arge fac
ulty member with a member of the com
munity. Senator Bob Gleason said at the meeting
that Union Board could be structured so
that its relationship with the union director
could be similar to that of the NU
president and the Board of Regents. The
director would be responsible for managing
the union while the board would mainly
set policies.
Among the alternatives for the Council
on Student life are reinstating the previous
status of the council or abolishing it.
At an ASUN hearing Tuesday night, the
concept of dissolving the council was dis
cussed. Bill Skoneki, Residence Hall Associa
tion president, said at the hearing that
UNL now has two agencies for "student
life," CSL and ASUN. Since ASUN is
elected to represent the students, it should
be ASUN that serves as the council on stu
dent life, he said.
CSL student member Larry Williams
said that he thou eh t abolishing CSL was a
good idea.
Another CSL iiternative listed on the
proposal is "removing the policy -recommending
power on student social and out-of-classroom
activities," and limiting its
recommendations to academic matters.
Some advisory boards and the Publica
tions Board have been excluded from
ASUN's recall action.
"Government really has no business
running the press," ASUN President Ken
Marienau told the senate Wednesday night.
Therefore, no alternatives for possible
action concerning the Publications Board
were included in the proposal.
inside friday
Funny business in the boardrooms:
Women have come a long way in
business, but not nearly far e
nough page 1 1
Chevy Chases Goldie: Foul Play
mixes comedy and violence into a
thriller page 1 2
Reaching for the stars: A UNL gym
nast qualifies for the World Games
in France page 1 6