ais vrs

Erma

Bombeck

Someone did a survey an:singles and found out

they don't “swing” as much as marrieds.
. ts that d to give me

bh

to live for?

Besides, I don't for a minute Puy it. You think I'm naive?

I've seen all those Jill Cl

layburgh movies where

she's breaking away and starting all over again. That
girl never has to do so much as carry her own matches.
She goes into a bar, fakes out a cigarette and is

illuminated like a shrine.

She gets propositioned as she jogs and she can't
eat a solitary, meal without.the phone ringing off the
hook. As someone who had to write a check to get to

the prom, I'm impressed,

I'm not saying marriage is without its drama, but a
few weeks ago, | was waiting for a plane when I heard
a woman talking about her late husband. She said the

house Is so quiet. There is no one to talk

to...noone

to tix things... no one whose presence you feel as you
sleep... no one at the table to share your food or your
day and no one who moves or makes you feel alive,
- She had just described my husband watching the
bowl games on New Year's Day.
| don't care what the survey says. | find myself
living vicariously through Jill Clayburgh as she fights
off unwanted suitors and struggles to find out who she

really is.

‘ve done a lot of thinking about it and the
awinging single” lifestyle is not the downer they want

us to

alieve. | base this on an observation | made on

what time marrieds get into their night clothes in the

evening.

In the early years of marriage, you were out so
late a bathrobe was something you hung on the

bathroom door,

Five or six years of marriage and eventually you
both appeared in your jammies and scuffies around 10

or 11 when
unexpected

yeu were sure no one was going to drop by
y> .

After 30 years of marriage, my husband and | are
out of confining waistbands right after dinner, sitting
around in pajamas and robes in front of the TV set so
that when we fall asleep we don't have to risk waking
up by getting dressed for bad,

Jill Clayburgh doesn't own a pair of pajamas.

I cest my case.

Today’s secretary
a different breed

TORONTO (CP) — Today's
secretary may not be a great
typist but her goals and res-
ponsibilities are far beyond
those of her predecessors.

She probably has post-
secondary secretarial edu-
cation and considers her
work a springboard to the
management ranks.

The clerical field employs
more women than any other
occupational category in Can-
ada — 1.6 million — and
business pundits agree that

ic office i

her job with the Toronto
Transit Commission.

She said the word-pro-
cessor she now uses removed
the mundane work “like typ-
ing a dozen copies of the
same letter with just a dif-
ferent name on top, and it
gives me more time for ad-
ministrative work, which I
enjoy.”

“Right now the market is
erying for qualified, experi-
enced secretaries, even with-
out any word-processing ex-
i and in the offices of

and new management styles
are turning their world on its

ear.

Yolanda Coppolino, pro-
gtam chairman of the three-
year degree program in sec-
retarial and administrative
studies at Ryerson Polytech-
nicai Institute, says the
change of responsibility is
having a great affect.
ASKED SOMETHING NEW

“I know one ‘old-guard’
secretary whose boss
stunned her one day by
saying ‘Read the newspaper
for me and pull out what you
think I need.”

“That woman was very
upset at the change. She felt

it wasn't part of a secretary's -

job and traditionally it isn't.
It's a researcher's.

“But we're dealing today
with a business world that
has a whole new set of great
expectations of its secre-
taries, so we have to train
them in a whole new set of
skills.”

And:

the future, there will always
be executives who prefer to
have a traditional personal
secretary — they feel it lends
authority to their position.”
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perhaps in administration,
computer systems or re-
search and then work as part
of a secretarial team re-
porting to a team of mana-
gers — with the straight

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then reports as a team to a
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Mills said that with sec-
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paying, he wouldn't be sur-
prised to see more men in

th, 34,
has been a secretary for -16
years and welcomes more
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work,

“After all, they were the
original office workers. At
IBM we already have some
male ies,”

Teachers seek
more equalization

OTTAWA (CP) — The
220,000-member Canadian
Teachers Federation warned
Tuesday there are growing
disparities in the country's
educational system and
urged Ottawa to beef up its
$8.8-billion-a-year equali-
zation payments to so-called
have-not provinces.

The group, appearing be-
fore a parliamentary commit-

“We do not see that as a
coincidence," said John
Goble, secretary-general of
the federation. “We see that
as a cause and effect.”

But the trend to narrowing
the gap between the richest
and poorest provinces had
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