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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The feminists have solid legal grounds for other actions. Partly as a joke, Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, then 81, added "sex" to the section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of "race, color, religion or national origin." There was a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The New Feminists: Revolt Against Sexism | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

- Median wages and salaries of fully employed men were $4,713 in 1957, as compared with $3,008 for women. In 1968, men's income had risen to about $7,800, or 65%, while women's had gone up to $4,550, or 51%. The gap is widening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Majority Minority | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

The more that is learned about the pesticide with the awesome name of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, the more dangerous it seems to be. DDT has been accused of contributing to the virtual disappearance of the peregrine-falcon on the East Coast of the U.S., of causing cancer in mice, and of upsetting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pesticides: Attack on DDT | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Dr. Vuitch estimates that more than 20,000 abortions a year are performed in the Washington area, and that only about 25% of them are done in hospitals. Many of the illegal abortions are performed on poor women by unlicensed practitioners under less than sanitary conditions. While the capital'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Rights: Open City for Abortion | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

I only took three steps on those shoes -into the dinette area, which has a vinyl floor. The heels were plastic and the soles were vinyl. I never waxed the floor, so it wasn't slippery; I was very careful about that. My heel slipped on the vinyl and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumer Law: Slippery Shoes | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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