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"1 tell young girls what it was like,
and they shake their heads in disbe-
lief" says the Grammy winner. "When
I was in school, the careers that were
open to us were secretary, nurse,
teacher or librarian. In those days,
newspapers would have pages of male
jobs and female jobs. Now, I would
like to see more women in govern-
ment and sitting on the courts — the
right kinds of women.
"It's amazing to me that the Equal
Rights Amendment was virtually
defeated by Phyllis Schlafly, who went
around the country screaming that the
amendment would mean we would
have to share toilets with men. Any-
one who's ever flown on an airplane
knows we've been sharing toilets with
men for years.
The woman with whom Reddy has
shared her beliefs most closely is her
daughter, Traci, now the mother of 1-
year-old Lily.
"My daughter is a member of the
Directors Guild, and there were no
female directors when I was her age,"
Reddy says. "I always advised her not
to put any restrictions on herself in
terms of where she could go in life."
While her revelations about women
came long before Traci, revelations
about her religion came at the time of
Traci's wedding. Converted to Judaism
with her second marriage, Reddy
found out from a guest that her
grandmother was Jewish.
"I was raised as a Christian
although neither of my parents prac-
ticed religion of any kind," Reddy
reveals. "I went to a church boarding
school, and as part of that, I went to
church every Sunday. Whenever I
would ask my mother about her fami-
ly, her eyes would sort of glaze over,
and she'd change the subject. She had
been from another state, and her
mother died before I was born so I
never knew anything about my moth-
er's background.
"My mother had passed on long
before Traci's wedding, and the only
relative I knew of on her side was her
sister, who lived in New Zealand. Out
of courtesy, I sent her an invitation.
She came to the wedding and stayed
at my house. She talked a lot about
her mother, my mother and herself."
Reddy's aunt explained how her
mother, Reddy's grandmother, used to
light the candles every Friday night
and go miles out of the way to buy
meat from a kosher butcher, keeping
all this secret from in-laws who were
Scottish Presbyterians.
"It turns out that I didn't have to
convert at all," Reddy says. "If my
mother's mother was Jewish, what
does that make me? It's kind of like
Madeleine Albright in a way."
Reddy terms herself more spiritual
than observant, although she did attend
a seder last year at the home of friends.
"I think spirituality is more about
what's in your heart and how you treat
people than whether you're keeping
two sets of dishes," she explains.
Reddy's appearance at the Macomb
Center spotlights numbers in two
albums released last year — The Ulti-
mate Helen Reddy Collection and Cen-
ter Stage. This will be her last tour of
one-nighters because she finds chain-
link travel from city to city too hard at
this point in her life.
"I've done just about everything,
including a TV series, TV specials and
movies, and it's been far beyond any-
thing I ever imagined," says Reddy,
who recalls performing at the ACT IV
in Detroit. "I came along at a time
when I got a chance to meet a lot of
people who were in the later stages of
their careers. I had a wonderful experi-
ence doing a fund-raising concert in
L.A. with only four people in the
show — Jack Benny, Frank Sinatra,
Gene Kelly and me."
Next week, she joins Jewel, Judy
Collins, Paula Cole, Janis Ian, Phoebe
Snow, Odetta and Mandy Barnett in a
Jan. 25 concert at New York's Madi-
son Square Garden.
Reddy, who started in theater as a
preschooler, recently has enjoyed act-
ing in plays by Willy Russell because
of his insight into the female psyche.
She did three productions of Blood
Brothers — on Broadway, in London
and on tour in England — and four
productions of his one-woman come-
dy, Shirley Valentine.
"I'm currently divorced and plan-
ning to stay that way for the rest of my
life," Reddy says. "I'm much happier
single. Some people are born to be
married, but I don't think I'm one of
them. I was only a teen-ager when I
married [the first time], and my daugh-
ter was born when I was very young.
"I'm really relishing the fact that I
can do what I want without having to
answer to anyone. I'm enjoying my
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