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Waterloo Chromicte office :s located an Znd floor of Waterioo Square‘s Office Tower Enter via the mail entrance beside the Longhorn Restaurant {diectly opposite the card shop} or from the elevator foyer beside the Tâ€"O Bank Take the elevator to the 2nd floor and vou are there Women have slipped behind For all those starryâ€"eyed souls who say of women â€" "you‘ve come a long way baby;" here are the facts. Montreal economistâ€"Dian Cohen finds from the Women‘s Bureau that women workers are slipping â€" in the amount of pay they take home, as compared with men. Although more women than ever are in the labor force, one out of every three women are bearing more of the overâ€"all burden of unemâ€" ployment than in the past. In the clerical field where more than a million women work, men earn 57 per cent more than women, averaging $7,769 yearly to a woman‘s $4,962. The salary difference for men here is INCREASING. In the service sector men made 157 per cent more than women in 1972. Back in 1967 men service workers earned only 121 per cent more than women. Again the gap is INCREASING for men. Page 4 â€" Waterloo Chronicle, ww, August 25, 1976 waterioo chronicle In the sales field things are going from rotten to worse. In 1967 salesmen averaged $6,096 â€" women $2,292. Six years later in 1972 salesmen were up to $9,567 while sales women made a whopping $3,771. But the gap is narrowing in favor of women in the professions. In 1967 male professionals earned 87 per cent more than women. By 1972 they earned only 72 per cent more than women professionals. In the clerical field where 97 per cent of all secretaries and stenographers are women â€" male secretaries earn between $2,300 and $12,000 more than women. * Even babysitting is not sacred. The average 60â€"yearâ€"old male fullâ€"tme sitter made $5,536 yearly â€" compared to the woman sitter‘s $2,099! Now that the Games are over, and all the tears have been shed, it‘s time to look ahead to the 1980 Olympics. What the International Olympic Committee needs like a hole in the head is new ideas, but I‘ll give them one anyâ€" way. It‘s simple: give everybody a sec_ond chance. Most of us get a second chance in life, whether it‘s falling down on the job, impaired driving, or being married. Why not the Olympic athletes? . O When men are outstripping women at such traditional work as looking after the baby all that can be said for the women of Canada is ‘‘you‘ve slipped a long way baby."‘ I got a second chance once upon a time, and I was ecâ€" statically grateful for it. It was a long time ago, and the Olympics had been cancelled for The Duration. but there were some pretty serious games in progress, just the It is one of the great ironies. and my students simply can‘t understand it when I try to explain, but yours truly, and a lot of others, were involved in a bitter competition. We were trying to become fighter pilots, so we could be killed. Isn‘t that silly? But it was so. No Olympic athlete sufferâ€" ed any more tension. anxiety. or frustration than we did when it came to the big day. the final event. our wings test. ~ l.ohg before that. of course, were the eliminations First one was the physical examination. It was tough Many a I‘m sure people like Debby Brill and Bruce Simpson and Yankovich Strmzlwyzlski will agree with me. o same published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd . owner. 225 Fairway Rd. S . Kitchener. Ont address correspondence to Waterioo office : Waterioo Square. Waterloo. Ont .. telephone 886â€"283C Publisher: James M Boland Editor: Mary Stupeart h subscriptions : $10 a year in Canada. $12 a vear in United States and Foreign Countries Bill Smiley . The average In my view, the resentment which many feel â€" made $5,536 in our province toward Quebec is not against oman sitter‘s the French people at all but is a reaction to the favoured position which that province has acâ€" omen at such Gquired within Confederation. Antiâ€"bilingualism r the baby all is a mere symptom of a growing regiong@lism. of Canada is Special status for Quebec is not acceptable to many Ontarians. United Church Western Canada has always been suspicious established 1854 mily} Second chances Bilingualism is only one of a number of serâ€" ious problems facing Canada in the 1970‘s. In many ways it is merely a manifestation of more deeply seated problems. These largely relate to economic disparities which foster a growing sense of regionalism in many parts of the counâ€" try. This is the sleeping giant. . John Lane, the Conservative member of the provincial legislature advocates a ‘Ministry of the North to advance its special interests. Others feel that such a step would only add anâ€" other level of bureaucratic red tape to the proâ€" cess. ‘ We have this feeling within our own province. Last week I enjoyed a trip to Manitoulin Island. In addition to picking up a mild case of poison ivy, I picked up a sense of the frustration in that part of Ontario borne of its isolation from the power centres in the south. A View from the Grass Roofs youth with dreams of dicing through the clouds in a dogâ€" fight was shot down in the M.O.s office because he had flat feet or was color blind. P Next came the preliminary heats. These were known as Elementary Flying Training. If you came through about 60 hours of flying training without being terribly air sick, without bouncing mote than 40 feet on landings, and withâ€" outl:uâ€"nmng into another aircraft and killing yourself, you made the semiâ€"finals. â€" We lived in constant fear. Oh, not of killing ourselves. Nobody was concerned in the least about that. The dread phrase was "washed out." That meant that you weren‘t going to be that dashing figure â€" a fighter pilot â€" but that you were going to be retrained as a mere navigator, wireâ€" less op or tail gunner. In other words, sent to the minors. f y;)u survived the heats, off you went to finishing school, known as Advanced Flying. This was like making the Olympic team. but knowing you‘d probably finish in 3ist place PPeXX: * I was sent, with a lot of other young idiots dying to be killed. to Camp Borden. It was quite an august group, inâ€" cluding one Jake Gaudaur. the large, jovial gentleman who is now the commissar of the Canadian Football League. Hi, Jake ‘ VD(‘spllv the augustness of the group, we trained in midâ€" winter _ We flew in snow. we landed on snow, we crashâ€" of the East. The decision making power is in Central Canada. The West has never had the economic or political clout to assert itself, alâ€" though the scarcity of Liberal Members of Parâ€" liament west of Ontario is a clear sign of a domâ€" inant collective will. The stance taken by British Columbia and Alberta at the recent Premier‘s conference is another. Each wants veto power in the amendâ€" ing formula of the B.N.A. Act. The growing economic might of the western provinces is swinging the balance of power in a westerly direction and their regional interests now reâ€" quire more attention in Ottawa than the usual condescending lip service. Mr. Hobson is viceâ€"president of the Waterlooâ€" Cambridge Progressive Conservative Riding Association. There is a general hardening of regional attiâ€" tudes within the various parts of Canada. There is less flag waving and more tough talk. The national pride aroused by Expo ‘67 has not been repeated with the 1976 Olympics. No more whistling in the dark and chest thumping rhetoric. Canadians will not be diâ€" verted by phony issues like repatriation of the constitution. Major surgery must be performed if we are to recreate a sense of unity and naâ€" tional purpose in our country. Normailly, this isn‘t a big deal. The intercom was just a little sort of telephone into which the instructor shouted obscenities and the student ground his teeth. But on a Wings Test, it can be something more than a ~ {Continued on page 5) Came my big day. Everything was great. I was shaking like a wino. It wasn‘t quite snowing, but it wasn‘t quite not snowing. And the intercom wasn‘t working. landed into snow, and occasionally an intrepid student, usuâ€" ally an Australian, proved once again that an aircraft fallâ€" ing 6,000 feet will not penetrate the ice of Georgian Bay. The whole deal was not unlike Napoleon‘s retreat from Mosâ€" cow . It seems incredible, looking back, that we were in such terror of that creature. If all the young fellows in the world had managed to have themselves washed out, there wouldâ€" n‘t have been anyone to fly and kill and die. And all the time, leering over our shoulders, was the ugly face of that thing called Washed Out. But we suffered all the palpitations of Olympic contestâ€" ants as we edged closer and closer to that triumph of sadoâ€" masochism, the Wings Test. This consisted of about one hour of psychological torture in which the student flew the aircraft through a number of uncomfortable and alarming exercises while an instructor, sitting in the front seat, snarled imprecations. By Richard Hobson 3 yu syuoude