Portland Observer
Thursday, November 28. 1971
Paio 3
Generations, races and other groups differ on feminist issues
Atiieriran women xujiport
efforts
to improve
their
status hut ilmapprove of pre
m arital sex and permiaaivr
ehildruixing.
However, the
way in which women view
these and other questions
important to them often
varies arrording 1,1 their age,
education, race, income and
geographic location.
The diverse attitudea of
women to key laauea of their
roles aa parents, wivea. r ill
rena and providers are dia
closed by the Virginia Simla
American Women's Opinion
Poll. Volume I I I . which was
juat released
The Poll waa
roiKlucted by The Koper
Organization. Inc. among a
national sample of 3,000
women and 1,000 men.
According to Thomas Keim.
Virginia Slims manager, the
third Poll waa undertaken to
extend the scope of Virginia
Slims' in depth study of the
American Woman.
"This
latest Poll," notes M r. Keim,
"brings to light the feelings
and changing attitudea In
wards
women's
roles
feelings and changes which
suggest a profound effect on
the shape of marriage and
the American family m the
future."
A 61% to 34% m ajority of
young women would accept a
daughter's marriage to a
man of another race; a 46%
to 45% plurality of women
over 50 would not.
Women over 50 approve
more of large families and
religious truming for children
than do women between 16
and 29 Women over 50 also
believe that marriage is of
greater importance for a son
or daughter than an in
teresting career or financial
success.
The young are much more
likely to regard fulling out o,
love with one another, or
falling in love with someone
els,-, ns grounds for divorce.
Women over 50 tend more to
regard sexual infidelity or
excessive drinking problems
as reason to end a marriage.
The greatest differences
b etw een the g en e ra tio n s
occur on issues of "the new
morality", more specifically,
pre m arital sex Nearly one
fourth of the young 123%I
but only one in 20 women
who is 50 or older 15 % I be
lieves that sexual freedom
before marriage is a change
for the better.
T hree fifths
|5 9 % | of older women but
only a quarter (26% ) of
young women consider sexual
freedom a change for the
worse.
One half of young
women 14 9 % I and less than
one third of women in the
50 plus group (29% ) have
mixed feelings about it.
The youngest and oldest
groups (women between 16
and 29 and over 501 are less
likely than women between
30 and 49 to agree that
young people are now less
concerned about social status
and financial success than
young people used to be
The Generations
O is a g ree m e n ta betw een
women m the 16 to 29 year
old group and women over
50 are pronounced and fre
quent. Women between IX
and 29 favor efforts to
strengthen or change wo
men’s status by a 70% to
10% margin while women
over 50 agree with such
efforts by a much smaller
47% to 30%
The
younger
prefer
a
marriage in which husband
and wife share responsibility,
by 61% to .33%. but by an
opposite 61% to 35% margin,
women over 50 advocate the
traditional marriage in which
the husband provides ami
the wife runs the house and
looks after the children
Women between IN and 29
consider a couple's having
s im ila r backgrounds and
children much leas important
to a good marriage than do
women over 50.
Education
As a rule, women with
rollege educations hold the
same opinions
as
young
women, while those with
only grade school educations
agree with older women.
Like the young, rollege
graduates strongly favor ef
forts to improve the status of
women, by 87% to 20%.
while support among the
grade srhisil educated is a
thinner 43% to 26%.
Col
Black women admire leader
lege educated women are
ship ability in a man much
more likely to assign house
more than white women do.
hold chores such as mending
Black and white women
clothes and mowing lawns to
respect different men and
children of either sex
women
Congresswoman
A nd the w ell educa ted
Shirley Chisholm is the most
place greater emphasis on
admired woman among Black
personal rapport as a reason
women, followed by actress
for marrying. Two thirds of
Cicely Tyson.
The white
c o lle g e e d u c a te d w om en
woman Black women respect
165%) but only half of the
most is laxlyhiril Johnson.
high school 146%) and one
Senator Edward Kennedy is,
third of the grade school
overwhelmingly, the
most
educated 133%) think that
respected man. followed by
liking and wanting to hr with
civil rights
leader
Jesse
a particular man is an im
Jackson and then. W aller
porta nt reason for marrying
Cronkite. among Blacks.
College women are also more
likely to believe that "having
Income and Region
little in common" or "dif
Variations by income are
ferent views on how to raise
similar to those hv education,
children" are reasons for
with women in the S15JXM)
divorce
plus annual income group
F ifty seven p ercent of
tending to agree with one
college educated women, but
another, as did grade school
only 34% i>l grade school
graduates with women in the
women believe
the
ideal
under $5,1X10 group.
family contains no more than
Regionally, women in the
two children. College women
South are the most cautious
tend much more than other
about change, women who
women to regard world over
live in the West the least.
population as a gixal reason
Southern women, for ex
to have only one or two
ample, favor traditional mar
children In raising children,
riage by 55% to 40%. while
grade sehool women believe
Western women prefer the
mueh more in discipline and
sharing marriage by 52% to
religion; rollege graduates in
14%
Women in the East
moral and ethical example
and Midwest divide evenly
College
women
respect
on the question.
Golds M eir more than any
Over
half o, Southern
other woman and rate Henry
women, but less than two
fifths of women who live in
K is s in g e r highest among
men
tirade school women
the West, or East, think pre
agree with the overall con
marital sex is a change for
the worse. And, as a group,
sensus of women and have
greatest respect (or Mamie
Western women are much
E is e n h o w e r
and
W a lte r
less disturbed at the thought
Cron kite
of a daughter's "living with
someone outside marriage".
Racial Ib ffrrrn c rs
Black women are stronger
advocates of discipline, reli
Men
gum. alimony and traditional
The third Virginia Slims
male female roles in child
Poll documents the degree to
raising than are white wo
which men agree with the
men, but are less bothered
opinions and objectives of
than white women by sexual
women. As in the previous
freedom, and marriages in
Polls, a greater |>errentage
which women and men share
of men than women support
responsibility.
feminist (Milicies
And. even
Itlack and w hile women
more than women, men be
sometimes admire different
lieve the double standard
traits in people. Intelligence
should bo eliminated and
and self control are more
that a husband should con
important to Blacks, humor
sider relocating to another
and sensitivity to the feelings
locality if his wife is offered
of others less important.
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An auieiome assemblage of a splendid brntagr"
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Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Mantime Museum
“Congratulation! on this remarkable exhibition"
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A n E xhibition o f Oceanic Discovery
sought
The Metropolitan A rts Com
mission, an agency of .Mult
nornah County and the City
of Portland, is now accepting
project grant applications for
fiscal
year
1975 76.
The
postmark deadline for ap
plications is December 2nd,
1971. The Metropolitan Arts
Com m ission
has
lim ite d
funds available to hind pro
jects that are community
oriented
and
is
inviting
organizations and individuals
to submit their project ideas
For further information,
please contact Em ily Car
(«enter at the Metropolitan
Arts Commission office, 522
S.W.
Fifth.
Room
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Portland. Oregon 97201.
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PCC m eets v e te r a n ’s e d u c a tio n a l needs
W ith a current enrollment
of 2.729 veterans and de
(wndents of veterans, Port
land Community College has
the largest responsibility in
Oregon for veterans' ed
ucation. The effort made to
meet the obligations of that
re s p o n s ib ility is equ a lly
large
PC C s Office of Veterans
Assistance, staffed by seven
full time em p loyes and six
work study students (them
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veterans to return to school
and processes the paperwork
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The group
also
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for their education.
One of these functions,
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Thia tabulation
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tact
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Lyke became United'» first
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He joined
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i
i
financial systems. Prior to
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