News Scrapbook 1984

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f.~yth Of Working Mother Is Attacked By Researcher ( ntioued from 8-3) ' nd tt t n't nec-essary to spend t1m trying to d velop solutwns m the trad1l1onal manner of academic re rch Th t r earch ha already been don tn the day to day hves of and help. Each mother is often fight- mg her per'onal battle even though there is a wealth of experience and understanding in the community, ·ys Olinzock

She started her mall research project as a small mutual-help group, but now want to see Jf it can be expanded into a po 1ble network of neighborhood groups where worn n can go to hare their experi- ences. " !any of the toughe t problems faced by working mothers are those unanswered questions he asks her- self before he even goes out to get a job often even before the child is born She may not only be trymg to get back into a job market that she left years ago, but she is worried about child care, how well the child adJusts, what will 1t do to the rest of the fabric of the family life, etc.;• she aid.

thou and of women who have found th 1r O\\n olullons and arc making them work. 'What wen d 1s a way of getting th ucc of the e women out into th en ral eommuruty o that other can I arn from wha{ the sue- cc ful ones have learn d," she ·aid. Even th t 1d a I not new. iany large corporations recognize that some kmd of child care help and as- 1 lance m problem- olvmg make better employee of their working mothc But there arc countless thousand of other working mothers employed by mall compam who have no ac- e to UC'h C'OnC'ern, undcrstandmg