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daily nebraskan
tuesday, november 18, 1980
Survey: Nebraska women face job discrimination
By Ward Wright Triplett III
There is no such thing as a typical Nebraska woman,
according to a report released by the UNL Bureau of
Sociological Research. However, data collected as part of
the Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey revealed
some characteristics that most women probably share.
At a press conference Monday at the Nebraska Union,
Susan Welch of the political science department and Alan
Booth of the sociology department discussed the survey
they conducted last spring titled "The Status of Women
in Nebraska." The survey was the first of reports on a
variety of subjects, from cigarette smoking to participa
tion and support of the university. For the next three
months, a different report will be released each week.
In this particular report, Welch said the findings were
not surprising.
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:'Many of the traits we see here in Nebraska can be
found nationwide," Welch said. "By and large, the prob
lems of women in the labor force and discrimination is
what we can expect anywhere.
"Things have been changing somewhat, but it is still
not uncommon to find a woman with high education
being channeled into a secretary role, while a man with
that same level of education will be offered a low manag
erial job."
In a press release, Welch and Booth summarized some
of their findings. Sixty-two percent of Nebraska's women
are married, but only one half of those have dependant
children as well.
Twenty-five percent live by themselves, and a third of
the women are primary income-earners in their homes.
One half of Nebraska's women are in the workforce
and one third of them work full time. One six percent
held skilled or supervisory positions, and 36 percent had
clerical or sales jobs, the one area they were more likely
to be employed before a man.
The survey, which was proportioned throughout the
state and reached 1,600 people, showed that women arc
still at a disadvantage in pay, facing a discrepancy from
$4,000 to $7,000 less than men.
There also was information showing that younger
people are less likely to adhere to traditional views of
women, particularly college graduates.
"I don't believe that the views of women at the home
with little worries was ever true of most women, and it
definately isn't now," Welch said.
Booth said that he thinks that the ideal is declining,
partly because both sexes have an equal ratio of educated
members.
"I don't think too many people will fight against the
traditional values, simply for the sake of doing it." There
will be people that more, but there are not very many,"
Booth said.
"I think they arc doing so because of the need for
money, the economic situation. They reject it because
they feel it's necessary."
Beginning next week, the report, which includes cate
gories of employment, educational achievmcnt, quality of
life and employment, women and families, and physical
and mental health, will be available through the Bucau of
Sociological Research for SI.
Chenault named editor in chief
of DN for spring semester 1981
Kathy Chenault, a senior from York, was named Daily
Nebraskan editor in chief for the spring semester 1981
Monday night by the UNL Publications Board.
Chenault, who majors in journalism and political
science, has been serving as associate news editor this fall.
She worked as a reporter for the Daily Nebraskan in 1978
and in 1979, and as a general assignment reporter for the
Lincoln Star in 1979 and in 1980.
Chenault said she plans to take a close look at the
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Bomb threat traced to
whispering male
A Monday morning bomb threat that forced the evac
uation of UNL's College of Business Administration for
about 45 minutes has been traced to a male with a whisp
ering voice.
Although the Lincoln Police Department 91 1 staff was
able to (race the location of the two calls, the Fire Marsh
al's office refused to release that information.
According to Dwayne Novak, from LPD's 91 1, an un
identified male caller at 10:27 a.m. and 10:41 a.m. saying
there was a bomb in CBA. The voice was the same both
times, and Novak said he could not estimate the man's
age because he was whispering.
Although Novak said the caller's location could be
traced, Jim Kutiska. an investigator with the fire mar
shals office, said the information could not be released.
Kutiska said that releasing the caller's location would
hinder the fire marchall's office in its investigation.
UNL Police Captain Robert Edmunds said the callei
said that a bomb would be activated in the buildings be
tween 10:45 and 11 a.m. At the time about 12 persons
from UNL, Police, the Lincoln l ire Department and the
State Fire Marchall's office evacuated and searched the
building.
At 11:20, when "nothing suspicious was found,"
students were allowed to re-enter CBA, Edmunds said.
He said he did know if the calls were pranks, but that
bomb threats are "not played down."
The calls were "treated as a routine bomb investiga
tion and the entire building was searched," Edmunds
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