Word: chauvinistically
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...will admit, under slight pressure, that she has never really cared for the epithet "male chauvinist pig"; though she tried it on for size a few times, and though she felt a certain heady sensation of power while using it, she has come to see that it is not really her style. She has had two abortions, both premarital and illegal, and she sends contributions to organizations like the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition-but, enclosed with her check is a request that her name be withheld from the printed list of donors. She reads Sylvia Plath...
There have been many other changes. Perhaps the most important is that she has learned to speak up without the fear (yes, it was a fear) of being called a ballbuster, an aggressive or castrating female (the counterpart tag of male chauvinist pig). She has also learned to assert herself, insist on certain rights-mostly around the house, true, but that's where, after all, she spends most of her time. She asks-does not demand-that her children, her husband pitch in, share some of the trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country...
...chauvinist conspiracy of art historians was needed to keep major women artists from emerging, for the social conditions of art practice since the Renaissance have ensured that they had very little chance. Women were excluded from the artists' guilds of the 15th and 16th centuries, and later from the academies. Until the end of the 19th century, they were forbidden to draw from the nude in art schools, a crippling prohibition since the human figure remained the basis of "high...
...same job opportunities as men. Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. was moved to act by pressures from the Government, from his conscience and from his customers. Levi Strauss sells mainly to young people who have plenty of progressive notions, and the company could ill afford to carry a male chauvinist label...
...about time, because the soaps suggest that the main concern of any smart woman is now, as it was for Helen Trent 35 years ago to find a male chauvinist worthy of her and bear his children, the more the better. A woman is allowed to work, but a career is clearly an unsatisfactory alternative to marriage, unhappy or not. An aggressive woman district attorney, beset by a number of personal conflicts, cracked under the strain of a cross-examination she was conducting on a recent episode of CBS's The Secret Storm. "What's she going...