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If the amendment is adopted, and the language
of this section then reads that no person should be sub-
ject to discrimination by the state because of sex,
would this make invalid the so-called factory laws of the
state providing different work hours for women than for
men?
DELEGATE KIEFER: I don't know, sir. I do know
that there is a very recent statute which many of you
may not be aware of which does prohibit discrimination
based on wage and salary discriminations, based on sex, and
this provides for equal work, for equal pay for equal work
in any lawful business, industry, trade, or profession, but
there are many areas. Fir. Chairman, where there is some
doubt as to what would be the status of the law if a
provision were put in this Constitution removing all dis-
crimination because it is based on sex and very frankly,
this is one of the reasons why the committee in studying
this, looking it over, turned down this proposition after
a considerable debate.
As a matter of fact, a number of questions
with respect to alimony, other areas that were raised at