Wednesday, December 6, 1972
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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0DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Women 'is liberation hits
jJ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
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UNIVERSITY LECTURE IN,
JOURNALISM SERIES
BENwBAGDI KIAN
Outstanding Critic of the Press
Speaking tOn:
Freedom of the Press in.Jeopardy
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6--4 P.M.
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Anatomy: H. W. Davenport, "Studies
on Gastric Physiology." 4804 Med. Sci.
II, 1:10 pmn.
Psych. 171 Film Series: "Behavior
Therapy with an Autistic Child," UG-
LI Multipurpose Rm., 4 pm.
Industrial & Operations Engineer-
ing Seminar : P. Cherry, Victor Res.
Inc., "Some Problems in Superposi-
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Statistics Seminer: W. H. Dumou-
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of the Maximum-Likelihood Estimators
When Sampling from a Stable Distri-
bution," 3227 Angell Hail, 4 pmn.
Stuident Lab Theatre: Original One
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Journalism: B. Bagdikian. free lance
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Jeopardy," Aud. C, Angell Hall, 4:10
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By The Associated P'~ess
Hd\IFA (A3-"Up against the
wall,, Jewish mothers! "
It so'inds like an anti-Semitic
harangue, hult it's a fistelenched
battl-_-pry of Israeli women's lib-
eration.
Women's lib in Israel-where a
74-year-old grandmother heads
the state and girls get drafted
into the army?
"That's right," says Marcia
Freedman, the 33-year-old Ameri-
can-born leader of Israel's
"Women for a Free Society," a
gro'ip of 100 Jewish feminists.
"The popular image of the
Israeli woman as a sexy, gtun-
toting desert fighter is a big
myth. In reality, she's seldom
more than a houtsewife or a sec-
retary," says Freedman, a philos-
ophy professor at Haifa Univer-
sity.
Even in the army, she argues,
women only p'all clerical work,
parachute Hacking, nursing and
teaching jobs.
And as for Israel's woman
premier Golda Meir, Freedman
says "she is no example of
women's equality in Israel to-
day. The pinnacle she reached is
a leftover from an earlier Is-
raeli society when men and
women participatel together."
Freedman complains about
"sexist religious laws," and
points to discriminatory statutes
governing women's wages, taxes
,and pensions.
The Rabbinate, which has the
last word in all matters concern-
ing a woman's marital status,
and the Labor Ministry confirm
that:
-Women and men have differ-
ent pay scales ;
-Housewives are ineligible for
social security;
-A married woman's posses-
sions, and the woman herself,
are the property of her hus-
band;
-Only husbands can ask for
a divorce; and
-A dead man's 'brother muist
give the widow official permis-
sion to remarry. If the brother
is not old enough to permit re-
marriage, she must wait until he
attains his majority.
If and when the widow receives
permission, she must perform a
ritual of pulling off the brother's
shoe and spitting in his face.
"That's small recompense for
the dishes and diapers thrown in
our faces," says Freedman.
Asked what Israeli feminists
are doing about their gripes, she
said the movement's leaders
have split up to raise women's
consciousness and to fight for
equal rights.
Freedman's eight - month - old
group meets weekly to discuss
the issues of inequality in work,
abirth control, abortions, and child
care centers, which the govern-
ment provides only in welfare
cases.
Because of tiny Israel's "ba-
bies-for-'the-state" ethic, social
workers and the state health ser-
vice don't offer advice on birth
co-trot or issue pis, Freedman
charges.: The health service con-
firms it.
She adds that abortions are
illegal, and those that are per-
formed, are poorly done and ex-
pensive. Clandestine abortions in
Israel cost about $200.
While Freedman educates her
"sisters," former Member of
Parliament Shulamit Aloni is at
the barricades fighting for equal
wages and working -conditions,
and a say in women's personal
status under law.
The 48-year-old attorney re-
cently organized women laborers
at Tel Aviv candy factory and
closed the plant in a strike that
achieved near-parity with male
workers.
Aloni also has campaigned to
install a woman on the commit-
tee that chooses Israel's chief
rabbi.
"It is high time employers
ceased to consider women work-
ers as an inferior community,"
Aloni says. "The whole issue is
an insult to every woman in the
country from the prime minister
down to the last mother."
The Bureau of Statistics says
30 per cent of the nation's total
work force is female. Women fill
78 per cent of the clerical jobs,
only 22 per cent of the manageri-
al slots and 25 per cent of the
professional jobs.
Israe
The Labor. Ministry reports
that in 19"1, the average woman
worker earned 57 per cent of the
a-erage man's salary.
Women's rights have never
been a large issue in Israel;
froni-~ally, the problems ..facing
Israeli women's lib comefrom
the women. themselves. Secure
and happy in their traditional
roles, many reject any drastic
change in their status.k
Another problem is that more
than half of Israeli womanhood
come from Oriental communities
where, as one Morrocan-born
Israeli quips,' "a .woman's place
is in the oven. a,
Social workers claim they must.
plead with proud oriental hus-
bands to allow their wives to
work.
Even, Meir * has come out
agairpst *women 's liberation, call-
ing it "foolish.:"
The chain-smoking premier,
once referred: to by elder states-
man David Ben-Gurion as "the
only man in the government,"
recently said: <
"Women, beware-or you just
might' end up the prime minis-
ter, and that's- no joke."
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