Books
Careers in a man's world
“To Work”
By Patricia W. Lunneborg
and Vicki M. Wilson
Prentice Hall, 1982
266 pages, $6.95
“To Work — A Guide for Women College
Graduates" doesn't pretend that women grads
want the option to avoid the cold, cruel world It
assumes they're set on establishing a dareer and
want to be paid equitably for their skills and
education
The book is a road map showing the variety of
social and personal roadblocks that women
graduates may have to find their way around It's
designed to help women find a job niche by
attacking the tricky job-search process in a
methodical and clear-headed manner The auth
ors say women must learn to recognize the
disadvantages, odds and opportunities in the
working world in order to survive and thrive in it.
Primarily, Wilson and Lunneborg suggest
that women learn to see the business world as the
male-dominated place it is. Instead of trying to
change it, they say, join it and beat it at its own
game
It takes quite a bit of work to get through "To
Work." The book is a self-help, self-contained
version of a career development course taught by
its authors Chapter by chapter, the reader can
chart her progress by testing interest inventories.
personality traits, recognizing job skills, analyzing
personal situations, etc The book offers in
formation on job networks, support systems,
financial counseling and resource awareness —
Most interestingly, the book is packed with
statistical information about what the female
armed with a B A or B S. can expect to find in the
real world
The figures reflect dismal news, as usual As
of 1977, college-educated women still make 59
percent of what men earn with the same educa
tion level Women established in technical fields
bring home 22 percent less than their male col
leagues Women are concentrated in "ghettos ' of
non-prestige jobs that men of the same education
level wouldn't touch.
The book does give positive advice to liberal
arts majors — learn how to deal with figures
Educated women have to stop limiting themselves
with math anxiety, mechanical phobias and deci
sion-making insecurities
The career strategy that the authors espouse
is both pragmatic and neo-feminist They reject
the superwoman model and replace it by en
couraging women to put their work and family
priorities in perspective What? Women can't
have it all? This seems to be the new wave of
feminist thinking Choose carefully, don't choose
everything and make it applicable to the male
dominated work world
Angela Allen
Vonnegut misses the target
"Deadeye Dick”
By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Delacorte Press. 1982
Rudy Waltz is an old man His advice to those
as yet unborn: beware of life This is Kurt Von
negut as he passes out of middle age
Vonnegut was a charmer in “Slaughter
house-Five," the mid-60s novel which assured
him a place in American letters As he entered
middle age he looked back on life bitterly but with
fervor He saw a chance for a better life if only we
listened to the voices of the past
He acknowledged that he was committing
suicide by cigarette
In "Deadeye Dick" he's a tired old man Not
bitter, not angry, not desperate, just tired There's
no passion left to be even a good nihilist He’s
blah
This is not to say that Deadeye Dick" is not
good writing It most assuredly is Vonnegut can
write, even when his message is to stand up to life
in an old bathrobe and carpet slippers
But "Deadeye Dick" is sadly powerless
Vonnegut's irony is strained and forced. His
villains are weak. There are no heroes but the
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dead
"Deadeye Dick" is bleak Rudy Waltz,
through whom Vonnegut speaks, is a neuter His
life ended on Mother's Day 1944, when he aim
lessly fired an old Springfield carbine out a
window and killed a pregnant woman a mile away
The rest of his life he was Deadeye Dick,' mur
derer, human excrement, waste
Vonnegut suggests that We see our lives as
stones If a person survives an ordinary span of
sixty years or more, there is every chance that his
or her life as a shapely story has ended, and all
that remains to be experienced is epilogue Life is
not over, but the story is."
Few of us are anything but epilogues. How
sad How defeated How useless
' Deadeye Dick" is a typically post "Slaught
erhouse-Five" work. There's the catastrophe —
his hometown is accidentally blown away by a
neutron bomb There's the glib catch phrase, in
this case it's scat singing. There's the jumping
back and forth in time And the style is short
vignettes, simple sentences, easy vocabulary
His theme, such as it is, is spelled out at the
end: we are still in the Dark Ages
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