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of Jewish Home and
Aging Services see gender
inequity on a daily basis in
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their field. Parr, executive
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director, and Rosenberg,
associate director, are two
rare women in a male-
dominated field; in fact,
75 percent of the people
who work in their field are
men, they say.
They figure the dearth
of women in major profes-
sional positions can be
traced to two reasons.
The first is that only in
the last two decades have a
large number of women
taken the possibility of
careers seriously. When
Rosenberg went to college,
she saw the vast majority
of young Jewish women
going into teaching or
other traditionally female
fields.
"I wanted to be a social
worker," she said, but it
was a male-dominated
field. She remembered
thinking to herself, "A
Jewish girl to be a social worker?
Where would you go with that?'"
Later, when Rosenberg joined
the workforce after her children were
all in school, she didn't take the job at
the then-Jewish Home for the Aged to
become second in command; she did
it to pay the bills. She later found her-
self "pigeon-holed," yearning for more
responsibilities but saddled with oth-
ers' notions of what she could do.
"I wasn't challenged, but stereo-
typed," she said. "There were certain
things people thought I could do, and
certain things they thought I couldn't
do or didn't want to do."
Parr agrees. The traditional roles and
responsibilities that are conferred by
society have hampered women, she
says.
"The women are seen as being nur-
turing and caring. You are left to do
more of the hands-on work and you
are not seen as being someone who is
financially smart and operationally
smart," she says, adding that when
women do get into a position of
power, they can be judged as too
aggressive or too harsh. "I can handle a
situation exactly like a man ... and be
seen as the big B-word, whereas he is
seen as being 'strong.'
Only in the past decade have •
women made it into the upper ech-
elon of the workplace. For example,
up until she resigned Feb. 3, Mattel

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In Pursuit Of Parity

Sandra Jaffa: Federation Women's leader.

ascent of the lay leadership. Lay leaders
interviewed for the Ma'yan study
found that women in senior staff posi-
tions faced "the greatest obstacles to
advancement in national Jewish orga-
nizations." Of the 48 institutions
examined in the study, 53 percent had
no women in their top five salaried
positions and another 40 percent had
less than a majority in the top five.
Seven percent had three women in the
top five positions; one organization of
the 48 had a woman in the top posi-
tion.
In Detroit, two of the top five
salaried professionals at Federation are
women — CFO Dorothy Benyas and
campaign director Laura Linder —
but 36 out of its 94 staff professionals
(38 percent) are women. Women, on
the other hand, hold six of nine paid
positions at the Jewish Community
Council, including four of the top six
positions.
"As with the board, we look for the
most qualified individuals, and some-
times they happen to be women," said
David Gad-Harf, the Council's execu-
tive director.
Kathleen Straus, Council president,
agrees. "You are looking for people
who are willing to do the job, period.
You want someone who is willing to
take on the task that is sometimes very
demanding," Straus said.
Margot Parr and Carol Rosenberg

