Male and Female

>With increasing frequency, women are storming and taking once impregnable strongholds of masculine prerogative. Four recent victories: 1) Lieut, (j.g.) Judith Ann Neuffer, 24, of Ohio, became the first woman assigned to train as a Navy pilot. "I'm going to give it everything I have," she promised, adding that she would like to be considered for astronaut duty "if the opportunity came along." Responded Secretary of the Navy John W. Warner: "I would so recommend." 2) Next month, Emily Joyce Howell, 33, of Denver will begin work as the nation's first and only woman pilot of a major scheduled airline. With the rank of second officer for Denver's Frontier Airlines, she will help fly Boeing 737s. 3) For 107 years a sanctuary for men only, the Harvard Club of New York City voted 2,097 to 695 to accept female members. President Albert Gordon promised women a "gracious" welcome, but Member Jonathan Morse gloomily predicted the demise of the club "and all the traditions it represents." 4) For decades, the only women working in British Columbia logging camps have been cooks. Now Rayonier Canada Ltd. has hired six female loggers--not to appease feminists but to solve a manpower shortage and to cut down the high turnover among lonely male loggers.

>In September 1970 New York City Teacher Gary Ackerman asked the board of education for an unpaid paternity leave so that he could spend more time with his daughter Lauren, then ten months old. Turned down, he went AWOL from his job, with his wife Rita filed a complaint of discrimination with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sued the board in U.S. district court. Their argument: granting child-care leaves only to women is an invasion of privacy because it forces mothers to be housekeepers and child rearers and prevents husbands and wives from dividing up family responsibilities as they see fit. Last week the commission found that the mothers-only rule "discriminates against male teachers as a class." As a result, the board says it will reword its bylaws to ensure equal rights for fathers.

>"Why go on like this? Is it because of some pimp who is using you, exploiting you for his satisfaction? Aren't you tired of all this? Isn't it about time you gave yourself a break?" These words come not from the script of a new soap opera but from a letter Police Inspector Charles Peterson is distributing to streetwalkers in his district, the Midtown North precinct of Manhattan, which encompasses Times Square. Peterson's fatherly missive, handed out to every girl arrested for plying her trade in Midtown North, is the latest tactic in the current and--like those in the past--unsuccessful drive to clear New York streets of prostitutes. Writes Peterson: "If you want to get out of this rat race, we can help you. Think of it the next time your pimp punches you around or leaves you with only a few bucks to live on." To get help, the prostitute need only call one of two special telephone numbers. The police promise to keep all calls confidential. Some 500 notes have been distributed, but the response has not been encouraging: at week's end only a few calls had been made, mostly by prostitutes who simply wanted to know whether or not the letter was legitimate.

>To find out where the girls are, men visiting unfamiliar cities generally consult cab drivers, hotel bellboys or friendly waiters. Now, because of an enterprising German printer, visitors to Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich are spared that embarrassment. For about $1.80, they can buy a "city map for men" that shows where to locate streetwalkers, transvestites, dance halls, singles bars, homosexual joints and other attractions. What if a foreigner does not read German? No matter. Drawings, unmistakable in meaning and identifying each diversion, are appropriately placed on the map: a saucy girl clad only in G string and stockings always signifies a Scharfer (piquant) Striptease; a pert redhead beckoning from a window marks the site of every Bordellbetrieb (bawdyhouse); and two applauding tourists with drinks at hand of course designate what the map calls a Nightclub mit Show.

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