Date:    1/5/98  2:03 PM
     
     
Dear:  Arthur Levitt, Securities and Exchange Commission
     
        Re:     S7-25-97; the stockhold gag rule
     
        I strongly urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to stop
considering a rule that would prevent many stockholder initiatives from being 
deliberated and voted upon at open stockholder meetings.  Key among the 
stockholder motions that would be outlawed are those that affect women.  This 
proposed rule would prevent many motions and information on issues including 
fair employment practices (such as sex and race
discrimination and harassment) from being brought to stockholders' 
attention.  The rule would also prevent questions on gender balancing 
boards, the use of child labor, and other ways that employees, 
investors and customers force corporations to clean up their acts when 
they have refused to act on their own.
     
Please stop this gag rule!
     
Signed,
     
Jennifer Olenchek
National Organization for Women--WI
Vice President
2773A S 43rd St
Milwaukee, WI 53219
winow@execpc.com