European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Irani which Tho owns Wilh or brother in rottau Minn. Don t go into Dairying without knowing anything about it when Dickey and her husband separated five years ago she Kepi the farm and he moved away. He still comes Back in the summer to help Harvest the crops but responsibility for 42 cows and 40 head of Young Stock is shared by Dickey her 17-year-old daughter and a hired hand. An older son and daughter have moved to other parts of the stale but return Home occasionally to help. The problem with these family farms is Hal you just can t generate enough income to keep the offspring Home says Dickey who works As a Public school teacher to make ends meet. You have to have an outside income to support the farms  an Active Woma i in Minnesota Dairy organizations. Dickey Haggle prices with equipment and feed dealers handles the bookkeeping shovels manure unloads Grain silos and milks and Breeds cows. I spend a considerable amount of Lime looking Vough the to a  she says with a Hearty chuckle. It s like  a husband for your daughters. You want the  Al the end of the Day ust before Midnight Gwen West returns to her barn in Slippery Rock to begin another milking. Most armours milk twice a Day at 12-hour intervals but West found she could increase her production by 20 percent and help pay off a $30,000 loan by milking three times a Day Al right hour intervals. Aller graduating from Penn state University with a degree in Dairy science West worked briefly As a labourer in a suburban Pittsburgh Dairy and then was a Herdsman for 3vi years in Maryland. I was Happy Wilh my Job but i was t satisfied and i just up and  says West a slender woman with Wispy Brown hair and a to shirt Tan. She returned Home to the family farm which had been Idle Lor years bought a Herd of cows and converted the barn to a Dairy operation. Except Lor Hay making duties which she shares with her brother who raises Bee cattle nearby. West is on her own unable to afford hired help. It s bad when you re sick because you just have to keep going she says. And there Are times when have trouble they re big cows. I had one with Mik fever once which Means she can t get up. I had to get help to get her out. I can t do things like that i can t lift a cow. But any Man would need help Loo i think. They can t pick up a cow  while neighbors and other Farmers occasionally May cock an Eyebrow at the quiet woman trying to do the Job of three or four people. West is undaunted. "1 think they still laugh at me. But i Don t care she says i m milking three times a Day and i am doing it myself. I think they re just watching me. They re just watching waiting and  Tobera 1987 the life patterns of modern women crosswinds in a canyon9 by Patricia Leigh Brown new York times n his groundbreaking stud the seasons of a Man s Lite published by Knopf nearly a decade ago Daniel j. Levinson. ,1 pro Cosor of psychology Al Yale University explored Iho patterns underlying thet Vestol men his theory that a Oneal Tho tumult of adult info Are predictable ago linked periods of relative stability and transition was sparked in Par by his own Midway crisis. Ii was later popularized by Gail Sheehy in her Book passages. Levinson has now turned his attention to women from financial analysis to full time homemakers. Bui to syn Shorize the life pal Torns of contemporary woman is to encounter crosswinds in a Canyon. In the United states women can no longer count on a permanent marriage and a tile of domes icily. They Are choosing and being impelled by economic need to enter the work world. The Ordinary division Between Legate homemaker and male provider is being reduced while this May seem like old news for the human species it represents the Early stages of a major step in its social evolution Levinson said. For eight years Levinson has lived with 45 women in my head to said. He Wilh his partners including his wife Judy has been analysing the strivings and imaginings of the women s fives. His study which focuses on the Ages 35 to 45, is based on biographical interviewing. The women who were interviewed 8 to 10 times for a total of is to 20 hours each were drawn from a Pool of t ,300. They were born from 1935 to 1947 and farm three groups businesswomen at corporations and financial institutions in Tho new York area academic women at state and private colleges and universities and a random sampling of women mostly homemakers. Levinson found that women go through the same sequence of periods Al the same Ages As men he said. This was surprising because Many events in i hair lives occur at different  for one representative woman torn Between career and family it was As though there was no Middle ground Levinson said. She was in a perpetual stale of con hot. There were two different voices within her perhaps the biggest difference Between men and women and Between groups of women concerns what Levinson called the  Between 22 and 28, a Young Man plans a tentative life Structure. He forms a dream his vision of himself in the world his goals and aspirations. The dreams Are mostly related to  said Levinson. Hell be a Boxer an editor or a football Star the hero of his own Story women have greater Dipti Cully forming the dream he said. Everything in society supports men having an occupational dream but for a woman there is still a Quality of going into forbidden territory he said. There is More anxiety. Though it s very important for men to marry and have a family the big difference is thai a Man feels he is taking care of his family by  for the More traditional women m the study marriage and Amity form the Central component of their Early adult years. While a Man forms a vision of being the hero of his dream a woman might took or a Man to marry who will create a dream world in which she can have a significant part unlike a Man in his Early 20s, whose Lila is perceived As just beginning the Basic Assumption is that when a woman marries i he Basic character of her life is Prilly much set he said. The question of her further individual development is  also Many of the successful businesswomen did not have Long term goals. They want lobe Independent by l Eyare conflicted about ambition to said. Most did t think about a career until around age 30." Only 20 to 30 percent of Tho businesswomen married before age 28, a Low percentage compared to the traditional group. No More than 10 to 15 percent had children before 28. A theme thai emerged was the perception among these women of two mutually exclusive choices. Either she is going to become an Independent Petson with an identity other own. Or involved in love marriage and family Levinson said the sense of one or the other is very  there is no accrued cultural Wisdom to help the women Wilh these choices. They Are pioneers in a new phase of human  is the successful woman single and childless or toes she have a family he said. By and Large the image of a highly successful career woman is a single woman. But there is a flip Side. The image of the single childless career woman Silling alone by tha fire at night is a powerful image today one that is frightening to a lot of women particularly businesswomen. Very few women get to their late 30 s without strongly wanting to have  the study also pointed toward some new altitudes toward motherhood. By the time they re 40. The evidence is that Many traditional women Don t invest much in Mold Rhood he Saith they May like to have an extended ratify around them but they Are not highly involved with their offspring who Are now adults. They Are now Freer to say the kids Don t need me As much they come to a new Point in motherhood. The question then is what else do i want " some go to school and some Lake jobs that do not have great prospects for advancement. Businesswomen experience a similar dilemma. Somewhere Between the mid to late-30 a it begins to become evident that chances Lor much More advancement Aren t great he said. The Glass Wall they Are up against becomes clearer. Some will leave Hal world and go to a Small consulting company or Start their own firm. I think women have a tougher Lime than men do but i would rather be a woman Loday than so years ago he said. The problems facing a woman today Are considerable they Are reality he said. They Are not just a private neurotic  for the 67-year-old psychologist the project has been a profound developmental  he said. He found himself thinking from the Vantage Point of women including an occasional gee i would t want to be married to that Guy he said. That he is a Man doing a study on women will no doubt prompt criticism in ways that will seem  he said. But that s part of the risk of going  to my knowledge he said i am the first Man to do a Large scale study of women so it is an Odd position. I remain a nut " the stars and stripes Page 15