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Commission on the Status of Women. Report and
Recommendations to the Governor and the General
Assembly June, 1974.
Illinois State Commission on the Status of Women,
Springfield.
Jun 74
71p.
Documents/Serials Branch, Illinois State Library,
Centennial Building, Springfield, Illinois 62756
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*Bias; Civil Rights; *Discriminatory Legislation;
*Equal Opportunities (Jobs); *Females;
Nondiscriminatory Education; Research Projects; *Sex
Discrimination; State Legislation
*Illinois
ABSTRACT
This report by the Illinois Commission on the Status
of Women studied such subjects as employment practices and policies;
Illinois labor laws; the family and the employed woman;
nondiscriminatory education; and expanded programs to help women as
wives, mothers and workers. Its recommendations briefly include: (1)
Illinois ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; (2)
implementation of the 1970 Illinois State Constitution as it relates
to prohibition of sex discrimination; (3) amendment of the Fair
Employment Practices Act; (4) support of state legislative bills on
survivor benefits and on increased employaent opportunities in state
government; and (5) adequate funding for the Commission on the Status
of Women. Biographical data is listed for the women senators in the
Illinois legislature in June 1974. (Author/HMV)
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STATE OF ILLINOIS
Report and Recommendations
to the Governor and the General Assembly
June, 1974
DEDICATION
The Illinois Commission on the Status of Women dedicates
this report to the memory of two outstanding women legislators who died recently:
Lillian Piotrowski, who served seven terms in the General
Assembly, and was a member of the first Illinois Commission
on the Status of Women
and
Betty Ann Keegan, who served in the Illinois Senate during
1973 and 1974.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Recommendations of the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women
Membership of the Commission
iii
Letter of Transmittal
iv - v
Report of the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women
1 - 58
Recommendations of the Policy Committee
1
Employment and Pensions Committee
38
Education Committee
9 - 18
Legislative Action Committee
19 - 21
Women in Illinois Legislature
22 - 44
Equal Employment Opportunity for Public Employees
45 - 47
Employment of Women and Minority Groups
in State Government Committee
48
Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois
49 .51
Women Workers in Illinois
52 - 57
Rape Study Committee
58
Appendix
Act Creating Commission
A -1 -
Commission Activities
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Photo Credits:
Paddock Publications except where noted
National College of Education, page 18
The Trib, page 11
Mithael Reese Health Plan, page 52
Csicago Sun Times, page 53
Report Edited by:
Jan Bone
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Illinois State Library
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