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Wednesday October IBM Two Insight speakers excellent models for women attending By LYNN RHODES Herald Journalist Joyce Beaton and feminist activist Laura Sobln key speakers at the Sheridan College Insight conference for women provided excellent models for the nearly 600 who attended the Saturday con fcrencc Both related their exper iences sometimes humorous times frustrating wo men breaking into a male dominated power structure cofounder of Golden glow Publications Mm Beaton confided I tell what eels gd about a woman being business for herself When that male voice calling the company says Hello sweetie Is the bou in and you can answer sure she is cutis you re speaking her Yet Miss Beaton believes the quickest way to failure for us women in the business a Is to pretend we re men and we have had to make our own rules and stop think ing Betty or Germain Greer or Gloria are the women we must emulate Since Janice Johnston and Miss Beaton established Publications and en Joyed the success of 1 copies of poetry books Joyce wrole in two months JOYCE BEATON Charlies mother died last night Charlie mother died last night was the only person in the world who cared if he shaved changed his socks or wiped his nose She did all these things with the greatest love a mother knows but she forgot one thing She forgot to make arrangements for him if she should die first 1 suppose she always thought Charlie as she affectionately called him would go first He was born years ago whik she was working as a cook in a lumbercamp There was a doctor called who have the patience to wait for Charlie to at appointed time was injured at birth and today is what is referred to as a mentally retarded adult I firit remember Charlie as he leaned the to with my son just a hours we moed to his neighborhood His nose was running J to reach or His appearance scared me at first until he raised his fact and smiled Nice baby he said I like the bib wiped lib nose and settled down to watch both children enjoy Iheir interiction Charlie was years old it lime Charlie was IB and had been to school His mother tried Ihe schools a couple of times but it as before the special schools for trainable retarded and there was nowhere for Charlie to go So he lomped around town in his rubber boots Everyone knew him and he was generally well treated The police chief had a special chair in his where Charlie regularly held court The service station had a bench with tools just for Charlie and hi would go in and fool around there for a few hours each Not everyone was as understanding There was time hi wanted to plat with group of kids and one ran home frightened The parents demanded his mother have him locked up I was witness several times to adult males on the direct asking him about his sexual prowess and then roar with laughter at his embarrassment and confusion There was also the lime his father died and he hid for days behind the furnace in their basement There was also the time my only daughter died and he met me in the street His arms went around me and gently patted my back like yoa would a baby and said Sorry sorry Charlie dreimed of adventure but has had little in his life would tell stones of how he was going up north IB miles When we moved he was sure wc wire going up north IB miles it him great delight aid lie to come with us miracle happened the year we moved away bee me a worker at J sheltered workshop for the adult trainable retarded The first lime I siwhim upon my return to the old neighborhood he was wearing a suit and lit indJlteniingaconcirl with coworkers Ik spitted mi during intermission and without hesitation lh me big that rocked me near off mj feet In tin see suit he asked pulling me over meet his friends felt proud of himself for the first lime in 1 is life at the age of He hid even been t it n to money fa bid habit he had ictpiircd while on the streets when well meaning wire pressing money into his hand sisters were islnmed of their I r wouldn bring their boyfriends home bee if N Hull their mother is dead nothing his He has no home His mother think there would be any need for suppose she always hoped her other would take him in Well they won t There ire Trias in Ontario where people like Charlie in live Homes that are not institutions as such but where he can be care of while going to work ich thy Hopefully won hive to hide behind the furnace but will hive friends him for the remainder of h lift sold in days and five Penny Gazette a tabloid about arts and crafts We are losing that female passivity that masochism makes females willingly put up with exploitation and ace ept roles which subject them to wills of others she said It was lack of foreseeable opportunity for promotion desired pay at the company both women were formerly employed with which Inspired them to strike out on their own In competitive field of print media We knew we could no Ion put up with being anything less than we were capable of becoming and hoping for in a Job that were never to come Admitting that at first they were playing office they soon changed our attitudes towards ourselves and stop ped whining and got on with serious learning trying fail accepting failure picking ourselves up and going at It again Although Miss Beaton and Miss Johnston took their new career seriously some t tte were like Hod who claims he I get no respect said Miss Beaton relating the day her ex boss kept assuring me he had always taken Golden rod seriously Pointing out Ihe irony of misnaming Goldcnglow Pub while confirming its acceptance bothered the company owners They sent their former a bunch of Goldenrod wrapped In ribbon and placed In a box with a note saying This Is we are Golden glow While some give the that they re Just wall for you fall flat on your face Miss Beaton said others have been very supportive Her candid anecdotes were easy for the women at the conference to identify with I always thought women who made it on their own like that were different but like Ihe rest of us really said a housewife who asked to remain unnamed Miss Beaton encouraged the rest of them to do what she and Miss Johnston have done Develop their hobby tie a printing into a business After all It was shortly after Miss Benton attended College first conference for women in 1373 Eyesight that firmly decided pursue a journalism career The trial which led to her first reporting job was covering that female day over there Laura who recently resigned as chair person of the Ontario Status of Women Council wai a former alder man board of education trust and Initiate- of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women is taking the same route as Joyce She Is going into business ith other women interested in founding a trust company in Toronto Mrs speech focused on of women 11b- the womb to the tomb By parents teachers text books government laws and the into rolea she said Women are endowed with intelligence can do any thing u man con do as bad and us well anyone can do as well as those In Ottawa and us bid us Trudcau but we have not made up our minds that we as people are endow with the intelligence and fortitude to do anything we to do She stressed some women and men should never marry and some women and men are suitable for I known we hive different genitalia but why dots that have to make a she asked Preaching to converted but gaining moral support Women with a wide range of les gathered at Sheridan College Saturday for Insight a conference for Women Curing films speakers seminars focusing on choices for women They tame to glean from other moral support advice for problems en for plans and ideas or personal growth A business women inchargc of buying for a large cor poration complained The men expect me to get the coffee grumble all the way to the cafeteria hate myself and resent them hut they don realize they are me and I don t have the nerve to speak up because 1 don t want to be rude but Then there was a divorcee who decidtd to enter law school and called herself late bloomer the grand mother whose husband good marnagt was Falling apart because she started night school a month ago a woman who fell obligated to slay home with her toddlers though boredom drove her to hate every minute of it In the words speaker Journalist Joyce Beaton Only women can understand othtr women their fears uncertainties lack of role models We hunger for strong Ontario Status of Wot lcil chat board of member initiator of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Laura is now founding a trust com pany in Toronto Seeking or the Progressive scit in North York in the next election is Catherine public managir or the Motor of inada ind Ontario Status of Women number The first woman to graduate the University of Toronto with degrees in ring Budget depleted Administration committee has urged regional council to stay within the official func bons budget Lost week the committee agreed that no additional funds be allowed this year for bus tours flowers or conventions Chief administration office Ernest Held said the budgetted funds are almost depleted and it will be somewhat overspent at the end of the year unless some restraint Is Imposed now Yarns Fibres Supplies for A Knitting Crochet Weaving Macrame I Handmade Crafts the weavers house Tuts Sal Si Thun WANTED FLOATS for Georgetown Lions Club SANTA CLAUS PARADE World Of Moke Believe December h For Further Information Phone Co Chairman EARL MERRILL Float Chairman BOB 8776394 Band Chairman STAN CAILAGHAN 8776392 Wilkinson heads Women at Sheridan College The seminar leiders are all in law business politics therapy career counselling teaching management or com muntca lions Laura Instilled In me new enthusiasm A lot of women picked up her energy and were able to discuss issues and relate to each other and gel it all out But fortunately In many cases Ihi next day the feeling of support llonej tomfool presideni of the Council of Women said Although she personally enjoyed Insight Mrs pointed It is to women with children Shi fi i teenagers though they were invited And the philosophy of reaching the goal of equality through hanging the attitude and youth by avoiding sex stereotyping recurred throughout the day Mary Simpson of Georgetown mnde similar point I came aw iy with real high but 1 wonder many women ihere rciHy needed it I think those who did mod il it trail They wi re preaching to the converted Mrs Grid most of he and assertive Insight gave Pat Stuart II iggc of Georgetown some ideis She has decided social conditioning logy is responsible for sexual roles said Mrs Sabla When I ask young girls in high Schools what they arc to do with their life per cent say gel married and I reply yes that takes 10 minutes then what not one boy ever told mc he getting mimed but they all do Marriage Is a battlefield not on covered castle said Mrs we dan t teach them about their sexual or the difficulties of mar ruge all the training they get is limited to home ec and eggs Teenage all behove their will not be the one out four doomed to end in divorce she said Divorce immigration ab ortion citizenship and prop erly ownership laws were dc scribed by Mrs She advised a doien house wives to commission a lawyer to Incorporate hem into Ho usewife Company to do chores a legal loophole lo join Canada Pension Plan ployment Insurance and the like Its devious but legal and there arc all kinds of deduct benefits she said and It worth a try to bring those boys In Ottawa to do about lack of eco nomic rights for unemployed housewives company for mutual benefit Is one way women can support each other said Mrs Sabia against disunity If women divide men will conquer she fears Women irresponsible in their Queen Bees who claim I mode It on my own house wives who resent career wo men and career women who put down housewives set us bock w years she said I cannot make decisions for all women every woman must make decisions Tor her self and not make dis par aging remarks about women with different choices Mrs 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