+a Al8 - Wednesday, April 21, 1982 - North Shore News OPTIONS FOR WOMEN ave you considered a hardhat? By DONNA STEWART A local teacher, Leslie Olsen of Handsworth, recently caused a stir by claiming that today’s teen- aged girls would be the “kewpie dolls” of the future, passive-submissive females with little will to resist male domination. Many articulate and ambitious teen-aged girls objected. They announced that they are going to be doctors, lawyers and ac- countants. They know where the money and the power are, and they intend to have a share of both. Sadly, many of their peers are still planning to be waitresses or clerks “until I get married”. They have not faced the fact that they will spend most of their adult lives on the work force, earning on average sixty per cent of what a man would earn. Six out of every hundred of those girls will never marry, and of the remaining 94 only 26 can expect to live with their husbands all their lives. Half of those 26 will be in the work force after marriage. In British Columbia, our 468,000 working women are forty per cent of the labour force. Many of these women live with their families with incomes below the poverty line. If wives did not work outside the home, there would be twice as many two- spouse families below the poverty line, according to Monique Begin, federal minister of Health and Welfare. That “second” wage is not buying luxuries. It's buying the children’s shoes. People who think of women’s work at “tem- porary” are overlooking the fact that most women are obliged at some point in their lives to take charge of their own economic needs. Because they have accepted low-paying. dead-end jobs “until I get married,” they are often poor in later years. Older single women, widows and scparated women are ~ collectively the poorest of the poor in Canada” ac cording to Flora Mac Donald, M P Even more unfortunate are the deserted = and separated women who are heads of families Almost half of them live below the poverty line The effects of their mothers’ poverty upon the children can hardly be measured Because two thirds of British Columbia's women workers are tn service clencal and secretanal yobs thetr job opportunities arc expected to dechine in the next five years Forty per cent of the clencal yobs will be gobbled up by the ‘oa COPTES + 420 bare Obety Ce ce. ee ted PM res ele. a. Le Co orl. 2 oa Oe wwilhiant meek Ao printing tt YAR lt spate “chips.” Five years from now, it will be even more difficult for the ordinary woman to earn an income that equals a man's. One solution, of course, is entry into “non-traditional” work. British Columbia already has women fire- fighters, policewomen, con- struction workers, mariners, pilots, truck drivers, roofers, painters, electroplaters, welders, carpenters, and at CN POTise least one railway yard- woman/ trainwoman. In the interior, the shortage of traditionally female jobs has accelerated women’s entry into the trades. In the Kootenay area, there are women building slip forms for pouring concrete silos 258’ high. There are women planting trees. 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