HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.J. Res. 1

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

JULY 13, SEPTEMBER 14, OCTOBER 20, 26, AND NOVEMBER 3, 1983

Serial No. 115

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

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CONTENTS

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Hon. Richard Lamm, Governor of the State of Colorado..

Hon. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives

Grover Rees, assistant professor, University of Texas Law School..

Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights..

Diana Pearce, Center for National Policy Review, Catholic University Law

School

Francine Blau, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

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Bernice Sandler, executive director, Project on the Status of Women, Associa-

tion of American Colleges, Washington, DC..

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Tish Sommers, Older Women's League.

Lane Kirkland, president, AFL-CIO

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Polly Madlenwald, president, National Federation of Business and Profession-

al Women.....

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Eunice Cole, president, American Nurses Association, accompanied by Tom

Nichols......

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Mary Hartwood Futrell, president, National Education Association, accompa-

nied by Linda Tarr-Whelan, director, Government Relations Division.....

Mary Purcell, president, American Association of University Women

Judy Goldsmith, president, National Organization for Women

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Dorothy Ridings, national president, League of Women Voters

Kathy Wilson, chair, National Women's Political Caucus

Congressman Herbert H. Bateman.

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Charles E. Wiggins, Esq., Pierson, Ball & Dowd, Washington, DC.

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Prof. Henry C. Karlson, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, IN.

Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum.....

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Elaine Donnelly, Donnelly Media Associates, Livonia, MI, accompanied by

Paul Barnhart..

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Carl C. Hoffmann, Hoffmann Research Associates, Chapel Hill, NC...............

Judith Finn, Oak Ridge, TN..

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Carolyn Becraft, director, National Information Center on Women and the

Military; Jeanne Paquette Atkins, staff attorney, Women's Equity Action

League, and Mady Wechsler Segal, associate professor of sociology, Univer-

sity of Maryland.

Carolyn Becraft

Jeanne Paquette Atkins

Mady Wechsler Segal.

Lt. Gen. Edward Chavarrie, U.S. Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Military Personnel and Force Management, Department of Defense, accom-

panied by Lt. Col. Dolores R. Gresham, U.S. Marine Corps, Deputy Assist-

ant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity and Safety Policy; Lt. Col.

Elizabeth G. Tullis, U.S. Army, Commander, Counter-Intelligence and

Signal Security Support Battalion of the 902d Military Intelligence Group;

Capt. Irene Graf, U.S. Air Force, KC-135 pilot; Lt. Colleen Nevius, U.S.

Navy, test pilot; and Lt. JG. Susan K. Donner, U.S. Coast Guard, command-

ing officer, U.S.C.G.C. Cape Henlopen.

Henry Paul Monaghan, professor of law, Columbia University; William Stan-

meyer, professor of law, Delaware Law School, Widener University; Gen.

Elizabeth Hoisington, former director, Women's Army Corps; and Mary

Lawlor, former Army lieutenant, Women's Army Corps..

Henry Paul Monaghan

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