Word: chauvinistically
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Since the beginning of public education in the U.S., male-chauvinist piggery has been rearing its snout, mostly unnoticed, in the millions of textbooks that teach children reading, writing and, more subtly, the roles they will later play as adult men and women. In reaction, feminists around the country have, for the past few years, been mounting a headlong attack on publishers and school boards. This fall, through a combination of legal actions, political pressure and cogent research papers, the liberationists are beginning to win a few skirmishes, though not the war, against sex stereotyping in schoolbooks...
...September issue of Ms, the Women's Lib organ suggested that NASA is a male-chauvinist bastion that has barred qualified women from competing for berths as astronauts. Whatever the truth of that charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight...
...King turned Bobby Riggs into a male chauvinist rabbit...
Maria ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 42, has obviously learned more steps than did her predecessor. Evita's hopes of becoming Vice President in 1951 were dashed by a determinedly male-chauvinist military. This time round, with an overwhelming election victory for both Peróns, no such opposition is anticipated. Barring the total collapse of order in Argentina, Isabelita will become her country's first female Vice President on inauguration...
...circus trappings of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show-the chairs on the court, the pails of water, the poodles, the vitamin pills, the Hai Karate aftershave-have been gathered, and the carnival tents have been struck by Billie Jean King's rampaging racket...