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THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CAROL AND PAUL MEDIAN, she 32 and he 34, married for one year and living just south of Bloomington, Indiana. They are as average as can be. Last year Paul earned $28,449, and Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways...
Both Paul and Carol have full-time jobs. She works for a large book manufacturer, supervising a team of compositors, who tap copy into computers. As it happens, her dad once did that job, which then required casting hot lead. It was considered "men's work." As was common at that time, it paid a high union wage, and Carol's mother never worked. Today there are mainly women at the consoles, and they aren't unionized. (In fact, only 11% of private workers are, down from 28% in 1970.) Carol loves what she does, and her boss just told...
...Carol may be fictional, but is she exceptional? Less than one might think. There is increasing evidence that women are doing better at adapting to new challenges in the world of work. If more are being hired and promoted, it is not just to meet affirmative- action goals or avoid discrimination suits. In increasing instances, they surpass men in the attitudes and abilities employers are looking for. This can be seen early in high school, where girls get better grades. "We listened more carefully to the teachers' assignments," Carol recalls, "while the guys thought they knew it all." The upshot...
...VENERABLE TRADITION AND not-so-arcane formula, the first three thrillers from the top of the new year's pop-trash pile constitute a trend. Last year's trend was hard-boiled women detectives, by such hard-boiled women writers as Carol O'Connell (Mallory's Oracle) and Patricia Cornwell (The Body Farm). The new trend is, let's see (flip, flip), hard-boiled women, right, but (flip, flip) written by soft-to-medium-boiled...
...they contend, because the profits for managed-care groups lie in attracting healthy members who require little or no treatment in a given year. "The experience of people with severe disabilities is that they get poor care because, frankly, the provider hopes they will choose another provider," says Carol Westlake, executive director of the Coalition for Tennesseeans with Disabilities. "What's missing is accountability." Frequently, she says, medical decisions made by doctors are second-guessed, even vetoed, by administrators...