WHITE HOUSE NEWS ON WOMEN

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WHITE HOUSE NEWS ON W
MEN
Sarah Weddington, The White House, Washington, D.C. 20500
Prepared by the Interdepartmental Task Force on Women
Vol. 1, Issue V ? November-December 1979
President Carter
Works On ERA
Ratification
Strategy
President and Mrs. Carter
greeted over 400 guests at a White
House "Salute to ERA" on
October 23 which demonstrated the
broad, nationwide base of support
for the Equal Rights Amendment.
That afternoon, Carter met for
an hour with the President's
Advisory Committee for Women
(PACW) to work on a strategy for
winning ratification of ERA. Earlier
in the day, PACW, chaired by ?
Lynda Johnson Robb, heard
testimony in closed sessions at Blair
House on actions underway by ERA
supporters in the 15 unratified
states.
Carter is interested in identifying
steps he and, members of his
administration can take to help
secure ratification. He has asked
PACW to collect more data and
meet again with him in the near
.future to recommend specific
support activities.
Among the special guests at the
reception buffet which culminated
the ERA strategy sessions were
editors of 34 national magazines
which ran special features on the
amendment in their November
Presidential Salute to ERA At a White House reception, President Carter
urged an all-out effort for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
issues, a project organized by Sey
Chassler, editor-in-chief of Redbook.
The guest list reflected a broad
range of support for ERA, from long-
time leaders to grassroots workers.
Carol Costen, president of
Network, a group of activist nuns,
attended the reception. So did
Phyllis George Brown, former
Miss America and TV sports
commentator.
' Senior citizen Maggie Kuhn,
president of the Gray Panthers, was,
there. So was Pat Antonisse, a
young Dutch woman who recently
became a U.S. citizen.
James Taylor, chairman of the
Illinois legislature's black caucus,
came to the White House, as did
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SUPPORT FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Joan Mondale ?
Ambassador
to the Arts
fficially, the wife of
the Vice President
has only one
required government
duty?presiding at
meetings of the
Senate Ladies Red
Cross. But Joan Mondale has used
her position as wife of the Vice
President to become the Carter
administration's unpaid ambassador
to the arts.
President Carter named her
honorary chairperson of the Federal
Council on the Arts and the
Humanities, which coordinates pro-
grams of the Arts and Humanities
Endowments and the cultural pro-
grams of other federal agencies. A
recent guide listed 300 programs
dealing with the arts and
humanities, administered by 40
federal agencies.
Mondale travels extensively to
promote and support the arts. Talk-
ing with artists and craftspeople and
visiting schools, museums, theaters
and concert halls, she frequently
learns about artists' problems and
then brings the problems to the
attention of government officials.
I An amateur potter herself, she said,-
"My fledgling efforts at the potter's
wheel have enhanced my apprecia-
tion of the work of the country's
great craftspeople."
Contemporary Art Favored
Joan Mondale has put a
spotlight on contemporary
American art by making the Vice
President's house a showplace for
:the best in contemporary American
arts and crafts. Collections from
regional museums have graced the
Vice President's house over the past
three years. The first collection was
Mrs. Mondale Congratulates Artist Georgia O'Keeffe (right) was one
of five women to receive an award from the Women's Caucus for Art for
outstanding achievement in the visual arts. She and Joan Mondale talk in
front of O'Keeffe's oil painting, "Patio with Cloud."
borrowed from museums in the
Midwest, the second collection from
museums in the Southwest. The
third and present collection is on
loan from museums in New York
and New England.
In addition to the paintings,
prints, sculpture, drawings,
photographs and crafts, the
Mondales have recently com-
missioned American glassblowers,
potters, and weavers to create place
settings for the official residence. A
collection of handcrafted furniture is
also on loan.
It is to the struggling young
artists that Mondale shows her most
enthusiastic support. "The modern
American woman artist lacks neither
talent nor training," she said in a
speech to the Women's Caucus for
Art last year. "She lacks only oppor-
tunity, and the time has come to
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give her that as well."
Mondale was present in January
of 1979 when President Carter
presented the first Women's Caucus
for Art awards for outstanding
achievement in the visual arts to
Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe,
Alice Neel, Selma Burke and Isabel
Bishop. It was the first time that
women artists have been so honored
by the White House.
Art for VA Hospitals
Mondale is especially proud that
the government has taken the lead
in a number of innovative arts proj-
ects. Through the Federal Council
on the Arts and the Humanities, of
which she is the honorary chair-
person, $500,000 worth of art works
will be displayed in Veterans
Administration hospitals, and an
artist in residence program will begin
at the VA Medical Center in Hines,
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Illinois, near Chicago.
"These programs will benefit the
veterans who use the medical
centers-for the arts will nurture
their spirit-and it will also help the
fine professional artists in our
country," Mondale said. The VA
and the National Endowment for
the Arts will select and commission
works of art for 15 hospitals.
Although she is best known for
her work in support of the arts,
Mondale has found that arts and
politics can certainly mix. Last May,
she helped raise money for the
Women's Campaign Fund by
sponsoring a reception to unveil a
limited edition of photographs by
noted artists. Ernest Haas, Eve
Arnold and Jill Freedman were
among the photographers whose
works were represented.
Combining her two favorite sub-
jects; politics and art, Joan Mondale
lobbies for the arts by showing how
the arts can be good business.
To mayors, governors, city
managers and the Maryland state
legislature, she has given a slide talk
on what the arts can do for cities.
She uses "before" and "after" slides
of places she has yjsited, showing
how art has brought strength and
vitality to downtown areas.
Mondale herself has best
described her role: "I try to be a
catalyst. And if I have any success,
it is in getting people to do things I
couldn't do myself. I can open doors
and let other people bring their
good ideas with them."
or more information,
contact: National
Endowment for the
Humanities, Patricia Allen,
Mail stop 351, 806 15th St., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20506
[phone] and
National Endowment for the Arts
2401 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. [phone]
$2.2 Million In
Grants Awarded
For Humanities
Projects
The International Women's Year
resolution on arts and humanities
urges the President to take steps to
require that women benefit more
fairly from government grants for
the arts. In support of this aim, the
National Endowment for the
Humanities has awarded more than
$2.2 million in grants related to
women's studies in history,
philosophy, and literature in fiscal
year 1979.
One of 60 projects supported by
the National Endowment was a film
recently aired on Public Broad-
casting Service, "Under This Sky:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Kansas."
It depicts Stanton's 1867 Kansas
campaign with Susan B. Anthony to
seek women's voting rights in that
state. Funding for the film was also
provided by the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Other projects ranged from a
study of the sociology of women in
New York City to a seminar on
women in American literature
during 1870-1920. Grants were given
to complete a film on women in
prison and a rehabilitation program,
to conduct a conference on the
history of black women in America,
and to produce a film on women's
work in heavy manufacturing during
World War II.
"We are committed to
aggressively supporting progams and
activities in the humanities that will
increase our understanding of the
tremendous impact women have
made on our history and culture,"
said Joe Duffey, National
Endowment chairman.
The National Endowment for
the Arts has awarded 303 grants to
individual women artists during the
past year. That is 30.9 percent of the
total grants given.
The greatest number of grants to
women were given in literature,
visual arts and music. The greatest
percentage of grants to women were
awarded in dance, education,
museum, and special projects.
National Endowment
for the Arts
Female
Total Total Percent
Male
Total Percent
Challenge Grants
1
1
100.0
0
00.0
Dance Program
60
36
60.0
24
40.0
Design Arts Program
89
27
30.3
62
70.0
Education (Artist In Schools)
6
3
50.0
3
50.0
Expansion Arts Program
6
6
100.0
0
00.0
Federal-State Partnership
4
2
50.0
2
50.0
Folk Arts Program
27
3
11.1
24
88.9
International/Internships
4
1
25.0
3
75.0
Literature Program
241
74
30.7
167
69.3
Media Arts Program
28
9
32.1
19
67.9
Museum Program
11
6
54.5
5
45.5
Music Program
224
39
17.4
185
? 82.6
Opera-Musical Theater
0
0
00.0
0
00.0
Special Constituencies
0
0
00.0
0
?00.0
Special Projects
29
12
41.4
17
58.6
Theater Program
2
0
00.0
2
100.0
Visual Arts Program
248
34
33.9
1.64
'66.1
Combtned program roads: 980; rota': fi,-.-male grants:
total male grtmcs: 677 t6Q.1%1
3
303 130.9uo
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CARTER INITIATIVES
Presidential
Appointments
Update
Woman to Head
Department of Education
The President's recent
nomination of Shirley Hufstedler as
Secretary of the newly-formed
Department of Education marked
the third time he has selected a
woman for a Cabinet position. If
Hufstedler is confirmed, she will be
the sixth woman in U.S. history to
hold a Cabinet post.
? President Carter has always
recognized the talents of women and
the contributions they make to
American society. Acting on this, he
.? has nominated and appointed them
to top federal government jobs and
federal judgeships.
The following is an update of
women named from mid-August
through October:
Judicial Appointments
Alcee L. Hastings, U.S.
, District Judge for the Southern
District of Flor-ida.
Anne Elise Thompson, U.S.
. District Judge for the District of
New Jersey.
Judicial Nominations Awaiting
f Confirmation
Dorothy W. Nelson of
California, U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Ninth Circuit.
Stephanie K. Seymour of
Oklahoma, U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Tenth Circuit.
i,E0eral Government
Appointments
Marjorie Craig Benton of
Illinois, Executive Board of the
United Nations Children's Fund.
Hanna Baird of Kentucky,
National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
Antonia Handler Chayes of
Massachusetts, Under Secretary of
the Air Force.
Lily Lee Chen of California,
National Advisory Council on
Adult Education.
Reva Crawford of Oklahoma,
National Advisory Council on _
Adult Education.
L. C. Dorsey of Mississippi,
National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
Hazel N. Dukes of New
York, National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
Ruby Duncan of Nevada,
National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
Frances Edmunds of South
Carolina, Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation.
Constance E. Gomes of
Rhode Island, National Advisory
Council on the Education of
Disadvantaged Children.
Frances H. Goodwin of
Texas, National Highway Safety
Advisory Committee.
Linda Hadley of Arizona,
National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
Monica Herrera-Smith of
California, Board of Directors,
Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Gloria C. Jimenez of North
Carolina, Associate Director, Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Sara Elisabeth Lister,
General Counsel for the U.S. Army.
Victoria Lederberg of Rhode
Island, Chair, Advisory Panel on
Financing Elementary and
Secondary Education.
Christine P. Marston of
Washington, National Advisory
Council on Economic Opportunity.
Dorothy L. Mattison of
Tennessee, Advisory Panel on
Financing Elementary and
Secondary Education.
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Mary C. Mulvey of Rhode
Island, Federal Council on the
Aging.
Evelyn F. Murphy of
Massachusetts, Chair, National
Advisory Committee on Oceans and
Atmosphere.
Barbara W. Newell of
Massachusetts, to rank of ,
ambassador during her service as
U.S. permanent representative to
UNESCO.
Mildred T. Nichols of Rhode
Island, National Advisory Council
on Adult Education.
Jean J. Perdue of Florida,
Federal Council on the Aging.
Bernadette Phillips of
Florida, National Advisory Council
on Adult Education.
Nancy V. Rawls of Florida,
Ambassador to the Republic of
Ivory Coast.
Deborah D. Richards of
Washington, National Highway
Safety Advisory Committee.
Margaret C. Simms of
Georgia, Advisory Panel on
Financing Elementary and
Secondary Education.
Adele D. Spielberger of
Florida, National Highway Safety
Advisory Committee.
Rachel B. Tompkins of
Ohio, National Advisory Council
on the Education of Disadvantaged
Children.
Bobbie Walden of Alabama,
National Advisory Council on
Adult Education.
Patricia F. Waller of North
Carolina, National Highway Safety
Advisory Committee.
Carolyn Warner of Arizona,
Advisory Panel on Financing
Elementary and Secondary
Education.
Evelyn Watts of Florida,
National Advisory Council on
Economic Opportunity.
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Federal Government
Appointments Awaiting
Confirmation
Carolyn L. Attneave of
Washington, National Advisory
Council on Women's Education
Programs.
Joan Z. Bernstein of
Maryland, General Counsel,
Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare.
Patricia M. Byrne of Ohio,
Ambassador to the Socialist
Republic of the Union of Burma.
Esther Coopersmith of
Maryland, represent the United
States at the 34th session of the
General Assembly of the United
Nations.
Alice Daniel of California,
Assistant Attorney General, Civil
Division, Justice Department.
Ruth M. Davis of Maryland,
Assistant Secretary of Resource
Application, Department of Energy.
Margaret Joan Giannini,
Director of the National Institute of
Handicapped Research.
Genta A. Hawkins of
California, Assistant Administrator
of the Agency for International
Development.
Jean L. Hennessey of New
Hampshire, Commissioner of the
International Joint Commission
(U.S.-Canada).
Anne F. Holloway of the
District of Columbia, Ambassador
to the Republic of Mali.
Shirley Hufstedler of
California, Secretary of the
Department of Education,
California.
Inez S. Reid of New York,
Inspector General of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Hazel R. Rollins of the
District of Columbia, Administrator
of the Economic Regulatory
Administration, Department of
Energy.
Susan J. Williams, Assistant
Secretary of Transportation
for Intergovernmental and
Congressional Affairs.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Vivian Derryck
Director of the U.S. Secretariat for
the Mid-Decade World Conference
on Women
Derryck to
Coordinate
U.S. Work on
Mid-Decade
Conference
Vivian Derryck has been
appointed director of the U.S.
Secretariat for the Mid-Decade
Conference on the United Nations
International Women's Decade. The
conference will be July 14-30, 1980,
in Copenhagen.
The International Women's
Decade began in 1975. The
Copenhagen meeting will rake stock
of progress from that time and set
priorities for the next five years.
Themes for the conference are
employment, health and education.
As director of the Secretariat, an
independent office in the State
Department, Derryck will coordinate
development of policy papers for
U.S. participation in the conference.
She will be working with women's
organizations to see that the views
of all American women are
represented.
Education/International
Affairs Background
Derryck comes to her new
assignment with a background in
education and international affairs,
especially African affairs. She
formerly worked in the Women in
Development office of the Agency
for International Development. She
recently completed a year's study
comparing formal, traditional educa-
tion with, shorter, job skills training
for third world women.
Derryck, 34, holds a BA from
Chatham College and an MA in in-
ternational affairs from Columbia
University. In 1972-73, she
developed African curriculum for
middle school children at the Boston
Educational Development Center.
From 1973 to 1977, she taught
curriculum development at the
University of Liberia. She has
taught African art, history, and
politics at City Community' College
of New York, and also worked at
the African American Institute in
New York.
Derryck was the first .wornan
member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. She also served omthe
House Committee on Population
Consultation.
An upcoming issue of White
House News on Women will outline
plans for the Copenhagen meeting.
For more information, contact:
Vivian Derryck
Director
U.S. Secretariat
WCUNDW, 1980
Room 1004
Department of State;
Washington, D.C. 20520
or call her at [phone].
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FEDERAL PROGRAM NEWS
IMINEMINMEIMMINI6
ANEW'
What a child eats determines how she
develops. Without proper nutrition, a
child simply doesn't have the same
chance for a full and healthy life.
That's where WIC steps in.
Two USDA Food
Programs Aid
Women
"I would have been very
discouraged and scared.., if it had not
:been for the WIC program."
?an Arizona recipient
Each month more than one
..million mothers and children get
nutritious food through the
_ Supplemental Food Program for
'?Women, Infants and Children
(WIC).
A WIC package might include
fruit juice, cheese, eggs, milk and
.fortified cereal. "They give you these
foods, but they also counsel you,"
said one Missouri recipient. Along
with the food, clinics offer lessons
on nutrition and food preparation
to help mothers understand why
diet is so important to their
children's development.
To qualify for WIC, pregnant
women, mothers and children must
be individually certified as "nutrition
risks" because of dietary needs and
low-income. Physicians, nurses and
nutritionists assess each person's
health and dietary needs. "If it
hadn't been for the WIC program, I
would never have known that our
blood counts were low," said one
Alabama woman.
The WIC staff urges each
woman and child to eat food high
in protein, iron, calcium, vitamin A
and vitamin C. Clinics provide such
food in one of three ways:
? They obtain food from local firms
and distribute it directly,
? they arrange for home delivery,
and
? they give mothers vouchers to
exchange for specific items at
groceries.
WIC is administered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, state
governments and local -agencies.
Another USDA program affect-
ing women is food stamps, which
help low-income households pur-
chase food. Eligible families get
coupons which they can exchange
for food at authorized stores.
"They give you
these foods, but
they also counsel
you.,,
Food stamps first became
available in 1961. By 1978, monthly
participation averaged 16 million
people. Women head 68 percent of
all food stamp households. Women
living alone make up 64 percent of
all elderly households in the
program.
Most WIC participants get an average
of 520 worth of food per month through
the program. Each clinic makes sure the
women know how to best use the foods
the', receive.
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or more information
on the programs, write to:
Robert Greenstein, Administrator,
Food and Nutrition Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
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UPDATE
18N,
Weddington
Work on
Women's Issues
Expands
When Sarah Weddington moved
up in the White House, to Senior
Staff, so did women's issues.
Despite reassurances by the
Administration that women's issues
continue to be a top priority,
women's leaders were concerned
that Weddington's promotion would
mean less emphasis.
In her new role, Weddington
chose to keep women's concerns
within her area of responsibility.
The promotion means women have
more time, not less: In addition to
Weddington's continuing involve-
ment, the White House permitted
the expansion of her office.
New Deputy Added
Sarah Weddington selected
Linda Tarr-Whelan as her Deputy
for women's concerns. Tarr-Whelan
adds a new dimension to White
House work on women's issues. She
comes to Washington after two years
as Administrative Director of New
York's Department of Labor.
She has over 4 decade's ex-
perience in labor and organizing.
Her top priority will be the ERA.
She will coordinate the efforts of the
Interdepartmental Task Force on
Women, established by the President
to recommend policy changes
throughout the Federal government.
When Weddington joined the
White House staff she inherited the
basement offices of her predecessor
in the West Wing of the White
House. Her office is now on the top
floor.
"I never thought of it as the
basement," says Weddington. "I
thought of it as the ground floor. It
is not only a difference in attitude,
but an indication of the nature of a
southern method of leadership."
The .record to dace reflects an
extension of the Equal Rights
Amendment and nearly 50.) women
appointed by President Carter.to
positions of power in the Federal
government.
Women to Help
President
on Agenda
for the '80s
To identify long-term issues and
goals for the United States,
President Carter has created a
special commission to recommend a
National Agenda for the Eighties.
The question of equal rants in
our society will be one focus for the
independent, nonpartisan ccrn-
mission. Other aieas likely to be
studied are inflation, energy, pro-
ductivity, and quality of life.
The President selected William
McGill, president of Columbia
University, to chair the panel. Of
the 20 commissioners named to
serve with him, eight are wcmen.
The panel members already chosen
will recommend an additional 29
private citizens to the President for
Commission membership.
The women already ser.-ing are:
Pastora San Juan Cafferty,
professor, University of Chicago;
Marian Edelman, director,
Children's Defense Fund;
Dorothy Height, pricient,
National Council of Negro Women:
Ruth Hinerfeld, president,
League of Women Voters;
Matina Horner, president,
Radcliffe College;
Juanita Kreps, former U.S.
Secretary of Commerce;
Esther Landa, past president,
National Council of Jewish Women;
and
Elspeth Rostow, dean,
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs.
The Commission on the Agenda
for the Eighties is an outgrowth of
the President's discussions with
national leaders at Camp David in
July. It has been 15 years since a
national panel took a broad-based
look at American society to focus
policy leaders on the future.
Advisory
Committee
Information
Available
Women interested in serving on
national advisory panels may find a
useful reference tool in a report
entitled "Federal Advisory
Committees." The book lists all
advisory committees, the agencies
under which they operate, names of
members and contact persons,
phone numbers and addresses.
It could also serve as a guide to
government groups doing specialized
research.
To order the report, write the
Superintendent of Documents;
U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C. 20402, and sk
for stock number 040-000-00406:-8,
and give the title. It costs $3.25.
lease Share,.
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We are eager to spread tlie'dv.vs
on what's happening in the Federal
Government that affects women. We
would appreciate your sharing:t-his
newsletter with others you think
would be interested in it. Also; ;
please feel free to use excerpts:
from the newsletter in your own
publications.
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President, PACW Meet on ERA Strategy At an October 23 session,
the President's Advisory Committee for Women worked with President Carter on
plans for encouraging ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
ERA
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actress Barbara Fe!don and
businessman coy Eklund. They
were joined by other long-time sup-
? porters of the ERA, including Liz
Carpenter and Elly Peterson, who
have served as co-chairs of
? ERAmerica.
The ERA Battle
Old/young, men/women,
Democrat/Republican, they heard
President Carter say that the ERA
? "is not a transient thing. It is a per-
manent, deep commitment of many
people, including all of you."
"I think we must go all out to
,prevail in these difficult tests of
strength," Carter said at the recep-
tion. He outlined the battle plan in
stark terms:
"On the one side, a heavy
majority of Americans, a heavy
majority of governors, seven
? :Presidents, both parties, a heavy
majority in Congress, people who
know what's right and who believe
in fairness dedicated to the ratifica-
tion of ERA.
"On the other side, a minority
representing no party, not repre-
senting a majority of any elected
group of people, but basing their
stand on intense feelings which they
exemplify in every contest and
benefitting from inertia, benefitting
from confusion, benefitting from
rumor, benefitting, quite often, from
political timidity, benefitting,
however, from a tight, close-knit,
well-organized, dedicated opposition
force.
"The only way to deal with that
kind of opposition is to have a tight,
well-knit, well-organized force to
present the facts to the American
people and to analyze state by state
where are the crucial votes," he said.
"We've got to put aside the
inclination that we all have to find a
scapegoat on which to blame a
temporary setback," Carter warned
the group. "Our course is a proper
one, our cause is right. And I
predict next year we will win. I'm
determined to do so if you'll help
me."
Unratified States
To ensure adequate time for
states to consider ratification,
President Carter supported and
signed into law a resolution passed
by the 95th Congress extending the
ERA ratification deadline until
June 22, 1982.
The President's family, Vice
President Waiter Mondale, and
White House congressional liaison
staff worked for passage of the
extension.
Three more states are needed for
ERA ratification. The 15 states
which have not ratified are:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, IlIinois, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
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