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By Alice Hrnicek
A woman entering the working world two generations
ago was less likely to notice and protest Injustice, accord
ing to two women university employees.
Garnet Larson, a retired university instructor who is
now a volunteer fellow at Centennial College, and Marilyn
Kotaki, a counselor in special services at the Multi
cultural Affairs Office, were Wednesday's WomenSpeak
lecturers. .
Sponsored by Student Y and presented at noon in the
Nebraska Union, this week's WomenSpeak was entitled,
The Erosion of Women's Liberated Ideas Once They
Enter the Work World." During the lecture, the women
detailed some of the injustices they have encountered.
Larson said she has initiated numerous ideas and
projects, but has had the credit taken away by a man.
Men take credit
Ml can't say this hurts my feelings because this has
happened all my life," she said.
Larson, who has been self-supporting since she was
17, has degrees in education, English, philosophy and
social work at four different institutions. She said she
never married and found that "trying for degrees was an
excuse for staying in school."
Looking back, she said she should have entered the
working world.
"I never had a great regard for doctorates because it
doesn't take above average intelligence to get one," she
said.
Larson taught while working on her doctorate which
cost her an extra year, she said.
My dissertation got turned down the first time. But
this other woman I was with got it right away. She went
in and the professors pitied her. If I wanted my degree I
should have gone in and cried."
Doctorate degree
But Larson said she submitted her dissertation with
few modifications the next year and received her degree.
"My philosophy is a manner of survival," she stated.
"I didn't expect to receive a great deal of credit where
deserved because it was picked up by others. If it had
been today, I would have been more upset."
Part of the reason for her philosophy she said, is that
she had always been better able to relate to men than
women.
"By going to men, my ideas were always looked at and
even modified but almost always taken away," she said.
"What was important was that if something was
established that was valuable, it didn't matter where
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Although in the past, Larson found men more frank
and open than women, she said she believes that women
no longer use the same tactics to protect their position.
-During the initial beginning where women were not
common in the professional field, women looked to see
whose place was where in a certain establishment. Women
were in competition with men, because there were so few
opportunities.
Unequal salaries
"I never got the same salary as men ," she noted. As a
full professor, she never received the top of the scale
pay for associate professors, Larson said.
"If there was something you wanted to do, you
weighed it against the money. It never occurred to us to
chafenge. Instead, I would go off and say it isn't worth
it."
One of the conflicts Larson said she has encountered is
living up to the unisex ideal and maintaining her femininity.
"I've always talked more easily to men, but in my re
lationships with men, I never played the role of woman. It
startled me that living alone meant being unmarried."
Larson emphasized that the quality of intelligence is
no different between men and women.
"Women may not necessarily compete with men but
can take jobs on an equal pay basis," she said. "Must there
be a reversal or is there some way men and women can
come together and still have their sexualities but lose con
sciousness of it in certain situations?"
Working with men
Kotati agreed that it is often easier to work with men,
but added this is partially because she grew up with two
brothers and no sisters.
"However, I often enjoy when I can share conversa
tions with women, the thoughts and experiences women
alone have in common," she said.
She added that a person has to realize that she will be
working alone no matter who she is working with.
"The aloneness comes from competition," she said.
"It's important to protect your vulnerability by keeping
ideas to yourself so someone doesn't steal them. It . can be
a cruel world whether working with men or women."
The counselor received her masters degree in rehabilita
tive counseling from Michigan State University, she said. In
her nine years as a working woman, she said she has
learned to psyche herself up to be in certain situations.
"I was prepared to be the only woman or black in
some situations, but I was not ready to be the first
pregnant woman" Kotati said.
After being employed at a social service agency in New
York, she became aware of sexist comments made by men.
'The psychological preparation one needs, you're not
even aware of until you encounter the situation," she
noted.
One of the added difficulties she has incurred is raising
a family.
"Because I'm more and more aware that I must spend
time with my children, I'm finding it difficult," she said.
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