Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons behind the news industry's poor performance go to the heart of its clubby, old-boy traditions. After 1968, many news organizations were quick to step up black recruiting, sponsor scholarships and institute special internship programs. Even so, studies show that the average minority reporter quits journalism much earlier than whites do. Though some are lured away to more lucrative fields, many are frustrated by limited opportunities to move up. "People who have worked hard, been on the rewrite bank, done the police beat are not being promoted as fast as their white counterparts," charges Ira Hadnot, a vice...
...inauspicious first year at college, seeing his father the presidential candidate on television regularly for the first four months, not always favorably, then commuting between the University of Pennsylvania and his father's bedside for the next four months. "He's become a man. He's no longer a boy...
Shirley Dennis, director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, will lead a group on "Changing the 'Old Boy' Network: Women and Minorities in Politics and the Workplace...
HARVARD will have to learn the hard way that the days of paternalism and old-boy networks cannot continue. Women are rebelling against the entrenched male hierarchy here, which has tenured only 27 women out of 383 spots and promoted a disproportionately small amount of female middle managers to top jobs...
...that they don't characterize a lot of what they're experiencing -- grabbing and slapping -- as violence." In order to raise the consciousness of young daters, the project's acting troupe visits local schools and puts on skits that present alternatives to courtship altercations. For example, a jealous boy learns to respect his girlfriend's need to socialize with others, rather than accusing her of unfaithfulness...