Women's Failure to Gain High Posts Deplored BY RAYAH NEST, JERUSALEM—When Aliza Ben-Or applied for the post of. director of manpower in a leading industrial enterprise in Ashkelon, she was in luck: o man was found suitable for the job. But, she adds, the director took her on as a stopgap measure until the right man came along. In a debate on the place of women in senior administra- ive posts, arranged recently by the Working Mothers As- sociation, Zohar Karti, direc- tor of the women's employ- ment unit in the ministry of labor, said very few women have reached top positions in the country. The exceptions a r e the prime minister; several members of the judiciary, not one of whom has been pro- moted to the Supreme Court; thi 'rector of the space lahi, _,cory at the University —f- Tel Aviv; and the director general of the government comptroller's office. A survey of administrative posts in government service presents a fairly reliable pic- of the situation as a IP ture whole. '-- Most women workers (48 per cent of employes in the administrative grades) are graded in the lower brackets as typists and telephone op- erators. In the semi-senior grades, women constitute my 18 per cent, whereas in the senior positions they ac- count for only 3.5 per cent. At a recent annual conven- tion of some 70 directors of units in the ministry of la- bor, representing some 500 workers, only five were women. According to Dr. Dina eitelson, 1 e c t u r e r in the school of education at the Hebrew University, of the stud e n t s registering for courses leading to a first de- gree, women constitute about half of the student body. In courses leading to a second -- degree, they account for only one quarter of the number. For the doctorate, their pro- 2 portion is much smaller. "A professor interested in a student continuing his studies offers him an, assist- :Antship so as to enable him to maintain himself, and these posts generally are offered to men because women, who are generally married by ._.° then, have someone to care for them," she said. _ Dr. Miriam Barad,_lecturer at Beersheba University, spoke of an inquiry she in- stituted several years ago 2 concerning women in senior administrative posts. Her in- quiry showed that men and women of the same educa- tional background and of the same seniority advanced dif- fere,ntly in the areas of sal- ari administrative author- ity 4-1 the type of posts they filled. T h e percentage of women reaching administra- tive and supervisory positions _:,,-was smaller during the first years of work, but as the seniority increased, their per- ) centage equaled that of men. According to Dr. B a r a d, the number of women choos- ing professions that are likely „ to lead to administrative '_posts — such as economics, law andengineering — is small. They seem to lack the necessary push, she said. Un- like the men, they prefer work providing interest and variety to work that ensures speedy advancement. F In a questionnaire c o m - pleted by women candidates for a post, not one indicated that she would threaten to resign if she were not pro- moted. During the debate on the objective and subjective rea- sons for the existing situa- tion, some claimed that it was impossible to develop two careers in one and the same family simultaneously. "If the advancement of the woman entailed her moving to another town, she would generally give up her post because her family would not move to a different locality on her account." According to Dafna Yis- raeli, an anthropologist in Tel Aviv University, the "root of the trouble" is to be traced to the early stages of a 'child's development. The girl plays with dolls and has no access to games which boys play. In the opinion of Dr. Feitel- son, this friction arises from unrequited expectations. "The state arose on the principles of complete equal- ity: women fought, flew planes, worked in agricul- ture, just as the men did, and it was expected that this principle would continue. But recently one notices greater stress being put on feminin- ity, even among members of kibutzim, and even the factor that contributed most to the development of equality — the army — now develops a barrier by creating essen- tially women's functions." Is Female MD a Terrorist or a Counter - Spy? LONDON — Dr. Diane Campbell-Lefevre is being carefully guarded by armed security men from Scotland Yard's politi c a 1 special branch, and there is only speculation as to the cause. Some believe that the 31- year-old Rhodesian-born doc- tor, who was jilted by a Jew- ish boyfriend for whom she planned to c onver t and marry, is actually a member of the Black September Arab terrorist organization. S h e was reportedly a participant in a plan to blow up the Is- raeli Embassy in Paris. How- ever, Fr e n c h authorities quietly whisked her to Brit- ain where she is a citizen. Others have speculated that Dr. Ca mpbel 1- Lefevre is really an Israeli agent who has infiltrated the Arab ter- rorist organization a n d is being protected from being murdered. Press reports here quoted former fellow students at the Cape Town University Medi- cal School as saying that Dr. Campbell-Lefevre was "very pro-Jewish" during her stu- dent days. The Johannesburg Sunday Times published an interview with a 34-year-old Jewish doctor, now married and the father of two children, who reportedly admitted that he had a love affair with Dr. Campbell-Lefevre. 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