Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 6, 1984 Emigre speaks 0 ,0 about feminism in Soviet Union By AMY MINDELL Her blue t-shirt said it all: "Inter- national Sisterhood" and at the bottom "The Rise of Feminism in the Soviet Union." Tatyana Mamonova spoke yesterday in the University's Lane Hall about her role as a leader in the Russian Feminist movement. About 40 people attended each of her two lectures. Mamonova first became involved in the movement when she ran into sexism in her own life, she said. "(The sexism) made me aware of the necessity to create a feminist movement." Women are excluded from the top positions of power, but "the government wants women active, so they are forced to lead a double life," said Mamonova. THE RUSSIAN FEMINISTS are "caught between two fires" said Mamonova "we are called dissidents of the dissidents." She also said that "the impression is given that the most repressed groups are the religious groups, but this is not true. We are all repressed equally." Mamonova and her family were exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980, before the Moscow Olympics, which she says is no coincidence. Mamonova had been the publisher of an underground feminist journal, though "publishing is different than inathe western world, in Russia it is a typewriter." The Feminists did not think that their movement was radical, but the KGB obviously did. Mamonova has combined articles from the journals into a book, "Women in Russia: Feminist writings from the Soviet Union". (Beacon Press), which has been translated into 11 languages. WHEN ASKED about the feminists' relationship to other dissident movements, Mamonova said that they are all united as humanistic efforts. "Feminism is the humanism of our time, humanism stays constant, only the form changes," she said. "The problem is that the movement has to be completely underground. Mamonova says that the Soviet women are feminists with out knowing it. "They are strong but they don't know it, they just don't have time to think about it," she said. There is some attempt at equality she said, for example women receive the same pay as men for the same jobs. "Women just can't get the same jobs as men" Mamonova said. "As an experiment my husband ap- plied for a cleaning woman's job. They laughed heartily and then said 'why are you here? You can get a good job.',", Daily Photo by KATE O'LEARY Tatyana Mamonova, a Russian emigre, speaks on feminism in the Soviet Union yesterday at Lane Hall. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Commission reviews equal rights WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says his agency probably will conclude that there isn't suf- ficient legal backing to push for "comparable worth" compensation for men and women holding jobs of similar value. Saying a commission task force is nearing completion of a study of the complex issue, Clarence Thomas indicated that the five-member EEOC is prepared to decide early next year that comparable worth is unworthy of consideration in pending and future job discrimination complaints. "Our own internal review is coming along. . . and we'll be making a decision in a month or so," he said. "I think it (the decision) will reflect more than likely a lack of legal support for that theory." Thomas said neither Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 nor the Equal Pay Act of 1963 specifically touches the question of comparable worth-the notion that discrimination accounts for instances of wage disparities that exist between men and women doing work of comparable value. Reagan presents cuts to Cabinet WASHINGTON-President Reagan met with his Cabinet yesterday to present his plan to slash about $34 billion from domestic spending in his new budget after telling new House Republicans to "take the lead and take the heat" for the cuts. Reagan's plan for big budget cuts, which is expected to include several popular programs, is part of a bid to keep the national debt from hitting $2 trillion in 1986. An administration official indicated that Reagan, searching for a $42 billion reduction in spending, had settled on a $34 billion cut in non-military budgets, leaving $8 billion to cut from the Pentagon budget request. Military spending will be considered next week after Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger returns from a trip to Europe. The final decisions on program changes will become part of the recom- mendations included in the new budget the president sends to Congress early next year. Sterilization straddles the pill WASHINGTON-Americans have dramatically changed their birth con- trol practices in recent years with sterilization surpassing the pill to become the most common method of contraception, latest government statistics show. "If male and female sterilization are counted as one method, then sterilization ranks first," among birth control methods, being used by 9.7 million couples, or 33 percent of those using contraception in 1982, according to a report entitled, "Understanding U.S. Fertility. Overall, the study found that 29.5 million American women were using some form of contraception in 1982, 55 percent of women in the age group of 15 to 44, which is generally considered the childbearing years. Coal mine explosion kills many TAIPEI, Taiwan - Rescue workers said they saw "piles" of bodies about 550 yards into a coal mine near Taipei. Police said the victims probably were workers who entered the shaft minutes before an explosion tore through it the day before. Among those trapped were two mining.officials who were checking the mine when the explosion occurred. The cause of the blast was not known, but it was believed that methane gas, which exists naturally in coal areas, was responsible. Authorities said a third miner in that tunnel was hospitalized in critical condition suffering severe burns and the effects of inhaling gas. Four rescue workers were hospitalized with undisclosed injuries that were reported not to be as serious, authorities said. Rescuers said their progress was being hampered by caveins and debris that blocked sections of the tunnel. Authorities said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the blast, but said it was apparently caused by gas. Mine officials said Haishan Yikeng had been inspected after the serious mine accidents in other mines and was found to have good safety standards. Families of the trapped miners, many weeping and praying, gathered in a light rain at a temporary shelter set up by the mine company. Drought increases Atlantic dust SAN FRANCISCO-The severe drought in North Africa, a major cause of the Ethiopian famine, is sending sharply increased levels of dust over the tropical North Atlantic, causing haze and "red rain" in Miami and the West Indies, a chemist said yesterday." "When we get rainfall during the summer months, we'll get a layer of red mud in our rain collectors, and Miami has no substantial red soils," said Joseph Prospero, chairman of the University of Miami's division of marine and atmospheric chemistry. Red mud following showers and summertime dust hazes that periodically cloud Florida's skies are familiar to Miami residents, Prospero said. "The new aspect is the dramatic increase in dust concentrations with the drought," he added. The amount of African dust in the air in Barbados, West Indies, in 1983 was more than double the average during non-drought years, Prospero said in a paper presented at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting. The exact source of the dust is not known, although Prospero said it occurs because the drought has sharply increased wind erosion of soil. Mineral, studies proved that the dust comes from Africa, he said. 0hie Michigan Bafl Vol. XCV - No.75 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00 outside the city; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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