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ABOUT WOMEN A M U S E U M O N L Y F O R F A S H IO N Paris, the glorious city of frustrating hemlines that zip up and down with unchartered regularity finally has a museum to display its favorite pastime — fashion designs. Housed in the Marsan Pavillion of the Louvre complex, the Museum of Fashion, a $5 million project, has thousands of clothes, accessories, sketches and photographs of countless greater and lesser designers who have made their mark in this field. The opening exhibit entitled "Moments in Fashion” featured 120 outfits and spanned the French fashion industry from the 18th to mid-20th century. There were designs by Charles Frederic Worth, couturier to Empress Eugenie, wife of Louis Napoleon; beaded jackets by Schiaparelli, evening dresses by Vionnet and Chanel, as well as linen bloomers worn by bicyclists in the early 20th century. The museum also features a boutique where a silk Yves Saint Laurent scarf with his initials sells for under $100. According to the New York Times reporter who covered the opening, the displays at the museum take a “non-scholarly approach”, with mannequins arranged in groupings. Descriptions of exhibited items are humor ous. One card reads, “In her boned bodice and panni ers, can the woman of the 18th century breathe?” O N -T H E -J O B R O M A N C E Women’s liberation as well as economic necessity have pushed many women into the job market where they routinely work beside men. On the managerial level, where the mundane tasks are performed by female secretaries, men and women have opportunities to see each other at their best. Many times the result is an affair, an office fling — substance for water-cooler gos sip and a problem for management. In years past when such problems arose, the woman more often than not was fired, hence end of problem. Today, women will file sex-discrimination suits if wrong ed, said Barbara A. Gutek, associate professor of psy chology, business administration and executive man agement at Claremont Graduate School in California. Ms. Gutek conducted a survey of 1,257 working men and women in the Los Angeles area and found that more than 80% of them had had some kind of “social- sexual experience” on the job. According to a management consultant in William- stown, Mass., an office affair will undercut a woman’s professional stature by calling attention to her sexuality. She also believes that such an affair carries more of a stigma for the woman than for the man, and will trail her from one job to another, usually not in a positive way. Most unrest in the office is caused by relationships between partners who compete with each other or between a supervisor and a subordinate. Ayse Manyas Kenmore, director of career planning and placement at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business says that colleagues and others in an office will tend to see any affair as sexual opportunism, even when this judge ment is undeserved. “If a man is senior to the woman, any promotion or recognition she gets, everyone attrib utes to connections, not hard work or talent.” In view of the negative aspects of office romance, why is it flourishing? One reason is that such a relation ship offers a measure of security. Each knows what he or she does, their sense of responsibility and reliability. A second reason is the matter of convenience. He or she is right there, eight hours a day, every day of the business week and many times on weekends. However, whatever the reasons may be for an office fling, one undeniable truth should make a woman stop and think — high powered men may have affairs with their colleagues, but they rarely marry them, often pref erring women who are “less driven professionally”. ‘‘W H A T ’S H A P P E N IN G TO O U R M E N ? ” K o m s om olsk a Pravda the newspaper of the Communist Youth League featured an article in 1986 titled “What’s Happening to our Men?” The author L. Tarkova analy zes the harmful effects of the women’s movement on the Soviet family. She argues that the growing initiative of women has usurped men as heads of the family. The women’s movement supposedly robbed men of their initiative and contributed to feelings of second ratedness. For this reason, men do not take an interest in the day to day running of their households. Soviet sociologists blame the tendency toward a matriarchal society as having influenced the divorce rate, which has increased 45% since 1970. Their advice to the Soviet woman: 1. Return the reins of the family to your husbands and 2. Write out your husband’s positive and negative traits on separate lists. Tear up the “bad” list, leaving only your husbands good characteristics. Then, every night before bed read this list over carefully. 32 ’НАШЕ Ж ИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 1986 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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