THE STRUGGLE IS FOR JUSTICE
McCarthy, Abigail
Some time ago I took part in a board meeting of a Catholic organization at which a prominent woman judge argued strongly for greater attention in the Church to the cause of women. "We need a...
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...Bierman's philosophy of the city is built upon these twin concepts...
...he asked...
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...Women are discriminated against in pension law, social security legislation, insurance legislation, tax law, credit and welfare...
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...Bierman's theory of personhood has the other as a necessary component...
...It remains to be seen what enforcement will mean for them--social security for domestic workers often goes unpaid and uncollected...
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...But most disturbing of all is that the poorest of the poor are women workers...
...As this concept unfolds the limitations of rugged individualism, ethnocentricism and romantic concepts of freedom are pointed out...
...A research project could serve as a much needed catalyst, especially in this time when anger is mounting among women everywhere...
...Surely she is concerned for her sisters...
...It will take billions of dollars to right the wrongs in social security alone," she added heartily, "but we must not deceive ourselves--when has justice come cheap...
...A scholar from the Midwest seemed genuinely astonished...
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...Jones' principal theme is romanticism and its effects on the revolutionary spirit--particularly as manifested in the American and French revolutions...
...For the fundamental question is just that--one of justice...
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...The Pope has reminded us that Mary of Nazareth was far from being a timidly submissive woman...
...Sister, of course, spoke in a kind of shorthand...
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...0 0 0 0 0 0 000 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued Jrom page 275) the reigning code of good citizenship, would that be welcomed there...
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...As a result, Ihe average woman worker earns about three-fifths of what a man does, even when both work fulltime year round," and, "Fully employed women "high school graduates (with no college) have less income on the average than fully employed men who have not completed elementary school...
...The judge and I exchanged despairing glances, but it was the docile nun sitting two places to the rear, charged with taking minutes, who answered, "Men," she snapped...
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...If I seem slow about it," she said the other day, "it's because the basic research is being done by bright young men, who are not fully sensitized to what constitutes unequal treatment for a woman--but we will get it done...
...In his preface Jones says the book was written for the fun of writing it...
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...Jones is a river skater among scholars, gliding endlessly over the stream of Western culture surveying its broad outlines, digging into little known or unknown crannies, catching familiar sights from unusual vantage points and making tradition fresh with quickened prose and novel insight...
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...Fifty-seven percent of all black women workers (Continued on page 295) 24 May 1974:280 to them as citizens...
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...But journalism is no better a substitute for philosophy than legislation...
...Women's groups point out that, even in the recent actions brought against the steel and telephone companies enforcing equal opportunities for women and minorities the government settled for only token back pay for the women who had experienced discrimination...
...the great central problem of the Western world is how to adjust the civic processes descending from the American and French revolutions to the romantic theory of every human being as an inviolable end in itself...
...The grave central problem of our day is not the destruction of the state or of institutions or of ordinary forms of decorum by casual violence...
...Bierman's book encourages me to say that more philosophers ought to try their hand at this sort of thing...
...Bierman shrewdly points out that our substitute for philospohical talk is legislation...
...A person, for example, is defined as a collection of relatents...
...Two out of five poor families are headed by women...
...lowest paid on all scales--are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act...
...It can be read for the same reason...
...It is hard to wait for widowhood for even partial justice...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 12
