Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, Wyoming grotesques. The people are hard, and the view bleak, tending toward melancholy. Brokeback Mountain is a surprise, the matter-of-fact, sorrowing, sketched life of a cowboy and his friend, married men, ordinary sorts, who over the decades never fully realize that they are gay. Real guys aren't gay, because, sex aside, they don't know how to be gay. A story called The Half-Skinned Steer is as grim as its title, and it begins, "In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train...
...women there, Jessica Keith, 24, told me she turned down her boyfriend's offer to buy her a $500 premiere ticket. "When you get older, there aren't as many big events to look forward to," she says. "Birthdays aren't that big. Christmas isn't that big. This is a big cultural thing...
...female candidates for the top business schools are opting out because of a feeling, like Mawn's, that they are better off with the work experience, or because of family considerations or a distaste for the business-school climate--or business in general--the fact is that they just aren't going. Women account for only 29% of those in the country's top business schools, and it's been that way since 1994. Meanwhile, other professional-degree programs are educating women in impressive numbers that continue to rise. Women made up 46% of first-year law students...
...just the top tier. A survey of all accredited programs has women accounting for almost 40% of graduates. But in business, where who you studied with is as important as what you learned, the value of a name-brand diploma is particularly high. And the fact that women aren't getting them has the business world all worked up. "Women business leaders are tremendously important to our company. We market to moms," says Mary Kay Haben, an executive vice president at Kraft Foods. "We rely on the top business schools to help us find the women with a track record...
...with this in mind that the University of Michigan, together with Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization that focuses on advancing women in business, teamed up to find out why talented women aren't pursuing M.B.A.s. The study, sponsored by 13 companies including Kraft, Citicorp and Deloitte & Touche, is still in the data-gathering stage, with results expected in early 2000. But its organizers have some theories of their own, as do plenty of women who have M.B.A.s, are in school or have decided against the degree...