{"id":1204,"date":"2016-09-09T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2018-01-22T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:59:31","slug":"dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2016\/09\/09\/dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Dunn Dale and the ERA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death of famed conservative activist and constitutional lawyer Phyllis Schlafly brought to mind an IWU connection from the 1970s. The University Archives contains a recording of a faculty member rebutting a position Schlafly took on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).<\/p>\n

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Dr. Emily Dunn Dale, 1988 Wesleyana p. 134<\/p><\/div>\n

Apparently WESN aired an anti-ERA piece by Schlafly and then Anthropology & Sociology Professor Emily Dunn Dale provided a rebuttal to Schlafly’s points. The Schlafly recording is not part of the archives’ collections, but the Argus published an opinion piece<\/a> by Schlafly that seems fairly close to the points Dale takes up in hers.<\/p>\n

A 19 minute recording on reel-to-reel tape contains Dale’s remarks. We had it digitized several years ago out of concern for its condition and you can listen to the whole thing<\/a> in a collection of historical materials online. Here’s an excerpt from the larger recording, with the text for just this segment below.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2016\/09\/Dale-excerpt.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“What I have found out, in the process of being a professional breadwinner for my family, is that I had a lot more to gain in terms of self-respect, than I lost in security. As a matter of fact, I found out what most men have to discover: that performing and providing for those who are dependent on you, is a deep source of ego-fulfillment and self-satisfaction. One of the major reasons why I am in favor of the equal rights amendment is that I feel men have paid a terrible price for overprotecting females like Phyllis Schlafly.”<\/p>\n

So what was this all about? The Argus contains a two-part series on the pros and cons of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the\u00a0Constitution on January 12, 1973 Argus<\/a> and January 19, 1973<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A March 22, 1974 Argus article<\/a> covered a campus forum on the amendment. Dale and IWU alumna, later professor of English, Pamela Muirhead relate their personal experiences of gender inequality in commercial settings.<\/p>\n

The cartoon below and a short opinion piece appeared in the February 12, 1982 Argus<\/a> when the issue surfaced again.<\/p>\n

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February 12, 1982 Argus p. 3<\/p><\/div>\n

Congress actually passed the ERA in 1972 and then the states had to ratify it…22 states did so almost immediately but 38 were needed. After a lengthy struggle, detailed on a website devoted to this topic<\/a>, the proposals failed to be ratified by the extended deadline of 1982. Successive efforts have not advanced as far since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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