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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, July 6, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes july 1985 modern living growing number of women following in dads footsteps associated press the youngster being groomed to take Over the family was once assumed Al ways to be not a growing number of among them Christie Kathryn Klinger and Barbara arc going to work for dad or even mom and learning to pick their Way through the minefield that is family what were seeing now is an increase in the number of women who Are both invited to go into the business and who Are interested in going into the said Barbara a family and organization consultant based in mothers and daughters arc teaming up More fre experts it makes an increasing number of women Are running their own starting them at a rate estimated at three times As fast As women run about million up percent from according to the House Small business Christie the 32yearold president of chicag based Playboy enterprises and daughter of founder Hugh joined the entertainment com Pany in 1975 after two years As a freelance journalist in her father remains chairman of the Kathryn president of the cosmetics com Pany that bears her mothers Georgette Klinger you get to do so much have much More responsibility and More creativity than if you were working for somebody but you get All the headaches that go along with nobody worries about it like you she at Barbara Millard seems Young to be president of the nations largest computer computer land of founded by her father and chairman of the William but Shes been involved in the company for a first working after school to make extra she and an acting and singing career to move into the business Hefner said she chose her path within the company once she got it evolved As she she because when she started As an assistant to her she had no plans to move into the presidents in she was promoted to corporate vice presi she joined the Board of she was named president in 1982 and assumed the additional title of chief operating officer Early last working in the family business is not All i dont think you can Ever enter the family business and not be plagued by speculation that you Are Only there no matter How much you it plagues Hefner in Many children Are encouraged to prove their legitimacy by working outside the family business or earning a graduate degree in business adminis except for Hefner writing these women neither worked in other jobs nor earned and there Are some the Only thing that probably would have been smart would be if i had had some business school that the Only thing in sorry i dont said who studied English at Kenyon College in Hefner graduated from Brandeis University with a de Gree in English and american literature but decided against seeking a masters of business administration Millard is a College the education i got working for my Given who he is in the Industry i am so much better equipped for the Job that i have than if i had taken a couple of years out and gone to she the trickiest part of working in the family business is what Hollander Calls the multiplicity of Millard is familiar with the struggle we have what we Call different its not fair game to have one conversation and switch its easy to do when you become All of a youre Yelling at your a subordinate just Doest get to Tell the i just think youre being she ill Cross the line of whats the appropriate Way to treat the Boss and hell jump in and i want you to do it like a father would can become an either you Are paid too much or too Little because you Are related to the i turned Down salary increases As i went which i  have done at an outside Hefner i think its More difficult to talk about Bompensa theres a fight afoot for women workers by Patricia Mccormack United press International women who work for a living better get acquainted with pay equity and the ongoing crusade to achieve it in the next five Why because it could mean a fatter paycheck for those who work in typically female jobs in health the office or service Industry traditionally underpaid because they Are held by the pay equity being billed As the feminist Issue of the Aims to get More Money for All of those relatively Low paying says Cathy a member of the National committee on pay equity in How much More enough to support a fair Standard of living instead of a Handt Mouth Collette is assistant director for women rights at the american federation of county and municipal half the unions million members Are including office Collette said leadership of the pay equity committee is it includes representatives such As herself from labor representatives from women organizations organization for women and such make up another and yet another consists of people from civil rights including the National conference of puerto rican women and the mexican american women National the pay equity committee is made up of delegates from some 200 groups represented on one of the a new Booklet from colletts focuses on the pay equity Issue and is youve come a Long Way a spoof on the Virginia slims cigarette the ads show an attractive woman basking in her the Booklet says that characterization is not always in the real there Are a few it underpinnings for that claim come from the department of labor on a woman with four years of College can expect to earn about the same salary As a Man who never finished High despite the ads displaying women pilots and women still Are concentrated in Lowray Deaden eighty percent of working women Are employed in Only 20 out of 427 occupations listed by the census the proportion of poor families headed by women is Collette said pay equity is Basic to real Progress for working she and other leaders say it is a concept working women need to be familiar Why As it says in the Booklet the Battleground for women Equality really is the pay equity is not equal pay for equal by the it is equal pay for work of comparable according to that Means female dominated jobs for example should be paid comparably to male dominated jobs that the employer has up photo Christie Hefner with her famous Tion with your Mother or the biggest problem is that of it causes some family businesses to experts the founder is often very unwilling to give up the Hollander his or her identity is wrap Ped up in the nobody is adequate enough to take the three women say they foresee no Power and they Are i know that i will have to wait for my own right my Job is not to screw it said the founders frequently have larger Hanife images that can be burdensome for a or for Hugh Hefner Public he created the if i aspired to i dont think i would be very Hefner my Challenge is to build on i see our challenges As being but later she added wistfully it would be Nice if people theres Hugh Hes Christie Hefner deemed to be of comparable How does the employer determine that asks the Book the answer its not most agencies and companies have personnel plans and Job descriptions that enabled them to set salaries in the first a pay equity study involves grading those Job descriptions according to the Effort and responsibility re these factors Are rated for each Job to come up with a Job evaluation Point then jobs can be a Secretary 1 has the same number of Points As a landscape maintenance the two jobs should be paid if a nurse has the same number of Points As a they should be paid a poll by the committee that involved men As Well As found nearly half of All including men and women in equal do not feel that the women movement has gone far enough to achieve equal rights for working when describing fundamental attitudes toward pm working men and women respond in a similar the trend is not consistent Between men and women on one Issue a major Ity of women feel they Are underpaid a majority of men feel that they Are paid both men and women Point to discrimination As the primary cause of the wage both men and women feel if female dominated jobs were filled by men the jobs would pay in a part of the Survey for women respondents were asked to report if certain occupations were under paid or about the occupations included professional registered truck Secre eighty percent of the women said professional athletes Are about a Quarter thought Engi neers and carpenters were sixty six percent said registered nurses Are underpaid 76 school teachers 55 secretaries 44 stitchers and  
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