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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 28, 1977
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WASHINGTON—EIizabeth Taylor and Alex Haley, author of “Roots” are pictured in
Washington. They will serve as co-chairmen of the African-American Institute’s Student
Energency Fund benefit planned for the middle of October. (AP)
Women and health
Learning to handle stress
(Third in a series)
By Catherine S. Chilman, Ph.D.
MILWAUKEE - (NEA) -
The current push for equality
between the sexes gives
women many new oppor
tunities, but it may also in
crease the stress they feel.
The multiple demands of
family, home and job create
new problems such as finding
reliable child care and seeing
that the house work gets done
along with job respon
sibilities. As a result, many
signs of stress appear:
irritability, depression, ten
sion, quarrels, gloomy
silences and even physical ill
ness.
Difficult as it may seem,
the first step is to face these
problems openly. Married
women will need to talk can
didly with their husbands.
This is not always easy
because many men find it un
comfortable to talk about
problems within the family.
No matter how angry,
worried or depressed you may
be, it is best to try calmly to
analyze the situation together,
with the goal of increasing un
derstanding on both sides, and
listening to each other. In this
way you may be able to
develop a plan for the work
that can be shared by all
members of the family, with
clear and appropriate
assignments for each
member.
If you have children, they
should be consulted, too.
Perhaps you and your husband
will need to make ad
justments in your jobs and
daily schedules, or perhaps
you can get a part or full-time
housekeeper to help maintain
family equilibrium.
Divorce and separation
rates are so high today that
many women find themselves
as single heads of families.
Work over-load can be par
ticularly stressful in these
conditions. Discuss your
feelings with a trusted friend.
Where appropriate, explain
your situation to your
employer, who may be far
more understanding than you
imagine. Just expressing
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Discuss benefit
So much
emphasis today Is
placed on
achievement, on
Individual rights,
and on material
goods that we are
In danger of losing
sight of the fact
that loving
relations are fun
damental to our
Ilves.
yourself can reduce stress and
allow others to understand
your problems, opening the
way for new ideas about how
to handle them.
On the other hand, half of
the women in the country do
not have jobs outside the
home. Many are content being
full-time mothers and
homemakers. If you are one of
these women, you should
resist pressure to enter the
labor market against your
wishes, for there are many
values in giving yourself
wholeheartedly to your fami
ly, home and community.
Another widespread, stress
related phenomenon among
women is depression. The
causes of depression are quite
varied. In some cases depres
sion may have its roots in
loneliness. In others, it is the
fact that women have been
brought up to be passive and
unaccustomed to making the
big decisions in their lives.
Sometimes the combined
pressures of job plus
housekeeping may bring on a
depressed emotional state.
Just talking things over,
therefore, may not be the
answer. Under stress, some
people become hyperactive
and get even more tense and
exhausted. Others tend to
become overwhelmed and un-
able to cope with their lives.
If you find yourself tense
and exhausted much of the
time, you ought to have a
thorough physical examina
tion. Discuss with your physi
cian whether you might also
benefit from help from a
professionally trained
counselor, such as a family
counselor, psychologist or
psychiatrist.
Far too many people turn to
drugs and alcohol to alleviate
stress. Unless drugs are taken
on the advice and with the
supervision of a physician,
this is usually not a good idea.
Drugs, like alcohol, may be
dangerously habit-forming
and cover up, rather than
solve, the basic problems
which cause stress.
So much emphasis today is
placed on achievement, on in
dividual rights, and on
material goods that we are in
danger of losing sight of the
fact that loving relationships
are fundamental to our lives.
Love requires sharing the joys
and griefs that others feel, as
well as our own.
A full, loving partnership is
becoming more and more
possible in these days of
equality between the sexes.
And such a partnership, for
those who can achieve it, is a
great healer of stress.
(NEXT: Accident preven
tion)
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Dr. Chilman is professor
and coordinator of the
family research program
at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This article is one of a
series written in coopera
tion with the Council on
Family Health, a public
service group funded by
the manufacturers of
medicines.
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Court’s decision on Bakke case will be far-reaching
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cedence —a roadmap for future
generations of law — is carried
in each Supreme Court decision,
relatively few of the high
court’s edicts earn the ad
jectives “historic” and “land
mark.”
They are the decisions that
transcend arcane legal ques
tions to influence the nation’s
history, reshape its institutions
or change some aspect of the
American lifestyle:
Could President Harry Tru
man seize control of a strike
bound steel industry to help a
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Richard Nixon refuse to hand
over his White House tapes to a
federal criminal trial? Could
the Constitution permit racial
segregation, prayer in public
schools or abortion?
In the Supreme Court term
that begins next week, one case
clearly stands out from the rest
because of its potential to do
just that.
What the nine justices decide
in Regents of University of Cal
ifornia versus Allan Paul Bakke
could dictate what role minority
races will play in American
society and may affect millions
of dollars worth of programs in
government, education and
private industry.
The Bakke case, as it has
come to be known, essentially
asks whether government may
take a person’s race into ac-
count when its goal is to help
traditionally disadvantaged
races.
Those who say yes, most no
tably the Carter administration
and the minority civil rights
movement, call such considera
tion “affirmative action.”
Those who say no, like Bakke,
call it “reverse dis
crimination.”
Bakke, a white 37-year-old
California resident, was twice
turned down for admission to a
University of California medi
cal school. He claims he would
have been admitted if the school
had not maintained a special
admissions program, which
reserved 16 of the 100 spots in
each entering class for
“disadvantaged” applicants.
A white man was never ad
mitted under the special pro
gram.
Bakke successfully argued
before the California Supreme
Court that he had been victi
mized by a racial quota, which
set for each entering medical
school class an inflexible num
ber of minority members it had
to contain, even if it harmed
better academically qualified
whites or led to unqualified mi
nority students entering ahead
of them.
The California court said such
a program violates the Con
stitution’s 14th Amendment,
which orders that all persons be
treated equally.
The Supreme Court faces two
crucial issues: can race ever be
considered and if so, are
“benign quotas” acceptable.
Civil rights leaders say stu
dent enrollments at profes
sional schools will be virtually
all white if the court strikes
down the use of racial consider
ations, robbing blacks and other
minority members of the
chance for membership in the
professions.
But such a ruling could extend
beyond education to other
government and private af
firmative action programs, be
gun in the 1960 s to help bring
minorities and women into the
American mainstream. How
will white citizens who may
have lost out on an educational
or job opportunity because of
such programs react to a court
decision upholding them?
In a string of cases, the court
already has upheld the use of
racial considerations by gov
ernment so it is unlikely it
would now use the 14th Amend
ment to strike down all af
firmative action.