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son with her own grand
mother. today's young wom-
an reaching maturity has a
quarter century of additional
life With abundant new
choices to plan for.
1T is essential that the
counseling of girls able
them to foresee the latter as
well as the earlier phases of
the adulthood."
Other changes in society
which have particularly af-
fected women, Mrs. Peterson
noted. are earlier marriages.
earlier child bearing, the
great migration from rural
to urban living, and AUTO
nation in the kitchen"
Education Top Priority
Continuing education for
all mature Americans" is sin
gled out by the commission
as perhaps the hig hest
priority item on the Ameri-
can agenda." and "of par
ticular Importance to women.
THE structure of adult
education must be drastically
revised" the report states.
Education must be recognized
as a lifelong process, not just
"a preparation for life that
ends when adult life begins"
Today, the report contin-
ues, abilities must be con-
stantly sharpened, knowledge
and skills kept up to date.
Continuing opportunities
to do this must be widely
available and broad enough
to include both the person
who did not finish elemental
~ school and the highly
gifted specialist who must
follow the frontiers of learn
ing as they move; both the
person whose skill has been
superseded by attenuation
and the person usually a
woman who has been out Of
the labor market for a time
but can, with preparation, go
back in and make effective
use Of her talents"
Skilled counselling" is an
essential part of education,
the report adds.
Equal Rights
On the subject of equal
rights, the commission saw
no need for the controversial
Equal Rights Amendment,
which has been before Con-
gress for many years.
WON en's rights are
abridged in many ways. espe-
cially in discriminatory laws
on the books Of many states,
the group found. But the
remedy for this lies in de-
m a n ding enforcement of
equal rights provisions which
already exist in the Constitu-
ton, it declared.
Equality of rights under
the law for all persons, male
or female, is so basic to de-
mocracy and its commitment
to the ultimate value of the
individual that it must be
reflected in the fundamental
law of the land" the report
stated.
THE Commission believes
that this principle of equality
is embodied in the 5th and
14th a m e n DIN e nts to the
Constitution of the United
States"
Early and definitive court
pronouncement, particularly
by the United States Su-
preme Court" is urgently
need d. however, the COM
mission said, Ito the end that
the principle of equality be-
come firmly established in
constitutional doctrine"
The report urged interest
ed groups to give hig h
priority" to bringing test cas-
es involving laws and prac-
tices which discriminate
against women.
Government Praised
In the area of jobs, the
commission declared that the
Federal Government-with
commission prodding-has
moved rapidly to eliminate
existing determinations in
hiring, training and promo
ton of women government
workers.
Action on our recommen-
dations took place so rapidly
during the life of the COM
mission that our report be-
comes for the most part an
account of progress made"
the commission commented
glOWlngly.
Other progress on jobs in
cluded:
/. A directive issued by the
United States Employment
Service. at commission re-
quest, instructing USES Of
fices across the country to
refer job applicants to en-
ployers ION the basis of quail
ifications regardless of SEX"
Employers also were request
ed not to specify sex in ask
ing for workers, except
where genuinely warranted"
2. Federal standards for
Federal-State gra n t-in-aid
programs were revised to re-
quire that State employees
involved in those programs