Lecturer tunes into the heart

By SELWYN PARKER

Dorothy Marcic is possibly the world's only singing lecturer on management. As well as an author (Managing with the Wisdom of Love, among others), she is a recording artist who has released four CDs of songs, including "Music for Management."

Her tour de force is "A Woman's Voice - a musical history of women and work in the 20th century," in which she takes the stage and tracks through song the emancipation of women in the workplace from the 1900s.

In between explaining the development of women at work, this engaging and witty woman warbles hit songs that reflect changing attitudes.

She starts with such adoring numbers as It Must be Him and the blindly loyal I Will Follow Him, works through to the more assertive You Don't Own Me and Nancy Sinatra's dismissive These Boots Are Made for Walking, the defiant I Am Woman and ends with songs about women who look for the hero within themselves.

Marcic won't worry Barbra Streisand, but for a lecturer, she's a pretty good singer. "The arts touch the heart," she explains. "If you want learning to stick, engage the heart as well as the intellect."