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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED121921 AUTHOR: Lamphere, Louise
TITLE: The Roots of Cultural Diversity Among American
Women.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 55 p.
ABSTRACT: As we reach the mid-point of the 1970's, we find
women in many different positions: working and non-working,
middle-class and working class, urban and rural, black and
white. There are women with strong ethnic ties or religious
orientations, first generation city dwellers and
suburbanites. Three factors -- increased female labor force
participation, increased divorce rate, and decreased birth
rate -- are all having an impact on womens' situation in
the 1970s. It is stressed that working class and black
women have found support for their roles in a social
network of kin and neighbors and in the institutions of the
neighborhood. Upwardly mobile blue collar couples, in
contrast, may move to cut their ties with family and
relatives. It may be that the increasing isolation of such
women may be a difficult adjustment. The isolation of the
housewife is also related to problems of adapting family
responsibilities to new work roles. Legislative reforms
like the Equal Rights Amendment, it is concluded, speak to
and benefit women in need of jobs, credit, education,
better health care and beenfits, and protection from all
forms of discrimination. Understanding and appreciating the
cultural diversity of women will perhaps bridge these
differences and to communicate the similarities in all
womens' situations.
(Author/JM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Anglo-Americans; Cultural-Influences;
Employed-Women; Ethnic-Groups; Life-Style; Religious
Factors; Sex-Role; Social-Adjustment;
Sociocultural-Patterns
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Differences; *Ethnic-Origins;
*Females-; *Geographic-Regions; *Social-Differences
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