European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 vote won by women 65 years ago by Dan Stuttgart Bureau sonic would say thai on his Day 65 years ago women were Given i lie right to contemporary proponents of women Rij Jils would say that Only a Man could phrase in thai we we rent Given uie proponents would we won the fight for women suffrage in the United Stales began when the country was Abigail Adams told her during i he revolutionary War ii women Are not represented in this new there will be another i he i9th also known As the Anthony amendment Aller its Susan was written in 1h75 and introduced into Congress for lie first time in in the next 4 i the Senate rejected the Amend ment Lour on the United Stales became the nation in the world to give women the right to Many american women were voting before the Anthony amendment my 1920 about i 7 million women were eligible to vote in Many feel Many women feel unfulfilled in the roles hey have been landed by although men May be As trapped is he Power role men hold might make it easier to Cope with he Susan who teaches psychology and did her Doc Oral studies in says women Are circus rib cd because behaviour has been defined by males have told both on the level of the society and on the level of the academic discipline Psychol How they Are and Why they Are the Way they she Dudley said those psychological descriptions have become written in according to a freudian analysis of the personality difference Between males and the most healthy Way a woman can be is very very a very unpleasant i have no doubt in victorian aus this was an accurate Freud gives us a biological historian Colleen Mcdannell used women suffrage As an men would say we were Given the women would say we won Mcdannell if you take women studies you would How do the women see this we have traditionally looked at it one Way the Way men look at Angilika whose Fields of study Are sociology and said the male definition of behaviour is the reason behind the recent surge to study there has been a lot More research done on the female sex role in the last 20 years than there has been on the male sex she the male sex role has been taken for granted As the measuring Point of every Type of she said researchers have been studying the degree to which women can measure up to she said they should have been looking at what potentials women have in their own rather than making living in a world defined by men has meant women have been forced Many times to take the leftovers in Socie Mcdannell said one of the effects of male domination has been that professions largely populated by women have a Low one of my theories is that you can Trace the decline of an institution by seeing How Many women Are in Mcdannell you can Sec it very Well in she in the 18th women were very important they were and hat was an Extension of their Motherly in the late 19th Century in the United you began to have the of Medicine medi Cine became a very powerful social you go to the medical establishment to find out appropriate behaviour what i should How 1 should in the process of making Medicine a women were in order to define Medicine As an important they got rid of the women who were prac timing what they considered to be unscientific Mcdannell said society makes an institution prestigious by limiting the number of people who can when women dominate an that institution is not accorded the same amount of social status in the society As a male dominated if there is an institution which has Power in the the institution is going to limit the number of women in Dudley said society finds Comfort in thinking men and Mcdannell Docster Lossack Dudley presidential elections under state and about 7 million had received the i ight to vote for members of Many equal rights advocates say women suffrage was the beginning of the Light Lor in 1923 Congress for the Liucc coh id cred the proposed equal Kights amendment to the con i lie a was introduced every year from 1923 to 1972 before Congress passed but 3x states have to ratify the amendment before it becomes despite an Estev Ion of the time limit for state 10 years of fighting won the votes of Only 35 the Era was shelved in Congress and will have to face new Senate and House votes before in can be considered again by the but the establishment of equal rights constitutes More than it is also for the 65th anniversary of the passing of the Anthony the stars and stripes spoke to three women experts in the social sciences about the women women and mens attitudes and the society that has created and harboured those the who hold doctorates in their Fields and teach for the University of Are 9 Susan who teaches Bio psychology and Spe in the psychology of Angelika who did her doctoral work in sociology and her secondary studies in be sides teaching courses in those she teaches classes about sex roles and child abuse Colleen who has her doctorate in religious she has had essays published in the Amer ican women writers series and Indiana University press will publish her first Book soon a historical look at religion in she teaches history for Maryland her second area of assigned roles the Mother sways the Dominion of the the father that of the the Book fireside education women have always been we like to think that has always been the and that what we Are dealing with now is a Bunch of crazy feminists trying to fight biologically ordained differences Between men and Dudley she said there always has been a division of labor be tween the in Pioneer the males had their role to play and so did the the females played a very productive they were making soap or spinning they were doing things that contributed to the Well being of the family in such a Way without that the males would not have so there was a True As Labo saving devices entered the the Wom ans role the woman was making no tangible economic contribution to the in our economic contribution is what defines a persons Dudley so that Why Many women want to be Joe we define ourselves in terms of Dollar the homemaker is polishing polishing chasing after children and not getting any and of economic recognition for that Mcdannell said previous generations worked under the Assumption that men and women had separate men did things that had to do with the Public and that with the you have this conflict be cause the men Are saying the Public sphere is the role of the so the male has to do with the woman is the private for her to try to work in the Public sphere is As silly As the Man trying to feed but Dudley says Are victims of the sex roles that stifle right now we Are living in conditions where females Are pushed in one direction and males Are pushed in another and real expression of real humanity is being stifled on both Dudley but she believes men have More Freedom because they biologically fit the Mold for we for that a College Edu rated White woman can expect to earn in a lifetime about the same amount As a High school educated White i think the woman is More Mcdannell psychologically it might be harder for the Man to accept being in a Leisure if the Man wants to stay Home and write what he has to focus on is his own pay if a woman wants to go out and become a business Shes faced with a whole institution she has to struggle with not Only her own fears of but also the abstract Koester Lossack thinks women might be better off than men in some men have been raised to see work As the Center of their she otherwise there is no place for she said woman have been raised to see marriage and children As the Center of their but women have options they can and men dont have an along those Are in a Little better position because they have that Dan Wollam