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Monday, February 7, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
LegisialiQve forum examines bells affecting women
By Margaret Reist
"Women got the right to vote in 1920 but only in
the last few years have we gotten our act together on how
to vote," said Virginia Walsh, one of four lobbyists for
the Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women, at
the 10th annual Women's Legislative Forum Saturday.
Walsh stressed the need to work together as a group to
get bills of concern to women passed and to have women's
needs and rights known and better understood.
"You have a responsibility after you elect someone to
public office to let them know your view," Lincoln Sen.
Shirley Marsh said.
"How can I represent you if you don't take the time to
contact me and let me know how you feel?" she asked.
Speakers discussed 26 bills concerning women, trying
to inform and involve the women in Nebraska.
A women's legislative caucus made up of representa
tives from 21 organizations reviewed the bills and chose
four lobbyists from the commission.
Legislative bills that were discussed included LB581
concerning pay equity. This is not really a pay equity bill
but a philosophical statement, a door opener to a new,
fairer system, said Jean CTIlara, executive director of the
Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women.
The bill introduces the idea of equal pay for work of
comparable worth, she said. All jobs would be evaluated
on the basis of four objectives: know -how, problem solv
ing, accountability and working conditions of the job.
Salaries and wages would be assigned according to those
results, O'Hara said.
Many businesses and industries decide their wages
according to practices of other businesses so the biases
are only reinforced, she said.
Most jobs are separated into female or male dominated
categories, she said. In Nebraska, 560 jobs are male domi
nated and 192 are female dominated. The female domi-
National Direct Student Loan checks for second
semester will be issued Feb. 7-9 in the Cellar in the
Nebraska Union from 9 a.m. to 11:30 ajn. and 1 pjn.
to 4 p.m.
Applications for delegates to the 1983 Model United
Nations at UNL are still available in the University
Program Council and Campus Activites and Programs
offices. The UNL conference, in its 16th year, begins with
a keynote speech by Hatem Hussaini, director of Palestine
Liberation Organizations Information Office in Washing
ton, D.C., Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room.
Another keynote speech will be delibered by Yehuda
Blum, Israel's ambassador to the United Nation.,, at 8 p.m.
Thursday, also in the Centennial Room.
Delegate registration is from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednes
day. The Nebraska Model United Nation's delegations will
be divided into three main committees and will debate on
their committees' issues Thursday and Friday, starting at
8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively. The committees will
meet in General Assembly Friday at 3 p.m. The
conference continues Saturday, starting at 9 a.m. and
concluding at 7 p.m.
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nated jobs are located on the low end of the pay scale,
she said.
OTIara cited a 1977 study by the commission that
found women in managerial positions earned 61 percent
of men's wages for comparable work, sales workers 34
percent of men's wages, and even in the traditionally
dominated area of clerical work, women earned only 93
percent of what men did.
The concept that women are in the work force primar
ily to make money to supplement their husbands' income
has become imbedded in women's salaries and wages, she
said.
Yet figures show that more than half of Nebraska's
women work fuil-time and of those, half are single
parents, she said.
The economy today makes it impossible to begin
making the wage changes that would be necessary, she
said. But perhaps the bill could eliminate some of the
biases, she said.
NCSW lobbyist Betty Peterson explained the need to
expand procedures for child support collection LB371.
As it stands now, if a noncustodial parent is more than
30 days late with a child support payment the money
can be taken directly from his or her paycheck. But as
soon as the delinquency is taken care of, the wage as
signment is removed, she said.
Because most dcliquent noncustodial parents are
repeatedly delinquent and because wage assignment
involves a lot of paperwork and time, it would save
time and money to be able to continue the wage assign
ment to repeated offenders, even after delinquency is
cleared, she said.
The bill would also allow tax refund interceptions
for child support, she said.
City Councilman Erie Youngberg, representing the
Lincoln Food Advocates, spoke on legislative bills 317,
363 and 520, dealing with food sales tax and tax credit
repeals.
Many politicians say that increased food sales tax
credit would make the tax more equitable, Youngberg
said. But when low income households are paying an
average of $250 in food tax, a tax credit of S34 does
not reimburse them, he said. LB 317 would raise the
tax credit from $28 to $34.
The food sales tax is immoral and inequitable, he
said. The tax credit only compounds the problem and
makes you more dependent on the system, he said.
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