Despres accuses city of sex discrimination in report
A city study led by Alderman Leon Despres finds widespread sex bias in ten city departments. The report shows women dominate lower paid jobs and few women hold supervisory roles, with the Law Department especially skewed. Despres seeks to discharge a sex discrimination ordinance from committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Despres
Tom Connors
5Th Ward
Leon Despress
Mayor’s Office
Civil Service Commission
Dept. of Environmental Control
Dept. of Law
Law Department
Law Dept
Ald. Despres
Fourth Ward
Claude W.B. Holman
Holman
Odas Nicholson
Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference seeks board nominees
The HPKCC Nominating Committee invites community members to suggest candidates for fourteen Board of Directors seats and four spots on the 1973 Nominating Committee. Co chairpersons Bill Goldsborough and Lucy Arnold emphasize broad outreach, with a July submission deadline and an October slate finalization.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Bill Goldsborough
Lucy Arnold
Jerrold Oppenheim
Arlene Rubin
Miles Schwartz
Michael Smith
Kate Williams
War Tax Resistance group claims first victory in Hyde Park
Hyde Park Kenwood residents report victory as Hyde Park Bank waives service charges on levies from war protest actions effective June 22 1972. Organizers led by Mark Sherman Roger Zoss and Nancy Hood plan further action while a separate murder case of Mrs Gertrude Morrison at Del Prado hotel remains with no leads per Area 1 Homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Alfred Klinger
S. Woodlawn
Hyde Park Bank and Trust Company
Internal Revenue Service
Klinger
Denis J. Daly
Hyde Park Bank
Mark
Joan Sherman
Roger Zoss
Nancy Hood
E. 55Th St. David
Nancy Finke
E. 52Nd St
Hyde Park
Gertrude Morrisson
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Ald
Edward Vrdolyak
Jane Byrne
Dept. of Consumer Sales, Weights and Measures
Vrdolyak
Thomas Keane
Daley
HPKCC
Board of Directors
D. Shigley
The
Herald
Tax Resistance Movement
Unitarian Universalists
Kansas
del Prado
Hyde Park Blvd
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