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...very often.”Skocpol, it seems, does not believe women have gained much support or security in the intervening 25 years. She told The Chronicle of Higher Education in December 2004 that the status of women today “has a very early-’70s feel, like stuff we thought we had overcome.”“I feel like I’m in a time warp,” Skocpol told the Chronicle. This comment came one month before University President Lawrence H. Summers told the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...close adaptation of a Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email messages are in danger of winding up in a printout on the desk of a National...
...strife and national strikes during that period. "There is something happening here," said Renee Kasinsky, 62, a professor of sociology in Boston. "I went to Cuba when it was 1962, two years after the revolution. And it feels like temporarily the clock has turned back to the '60s and '70s...
...movies and a few Mardi Gras parades there. Without us, my mother and father enjoyed frequent weekend excursions there, taking in shows and having dinner at Dooky Chase's and other eateries around the city. But by the time I hit my teens in the late '70s, New Orleans was hardening, and so was my father's attitude toward it. Crime was rising, white citizens were fleeing, conditions deteriorated in the public schools and hospitals, garbage littered the streets and the economy and tax base were beginning to falter. Our family trips became far less frequent, limited to the pursuit...
What is needed now is what has worked before and what has always been needed: institutional change to increase women’s life choices. The women of the ’60s and ’70s were able to force employers and, to a degree, the law itself, to recognize that women must not be confined to just chores or childcare. The women of the ’90s and of today face a different but largely related problem: Women shouldn’t be forced to abandon maternity in order to find equity with...