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...lower courts of appeal and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission had already found G.E.'s plan discriminatory, for it covers illnesses related to voluntary male operations such as vasectomy and hair transplants but not those related to childbirth. It was not on the basis that pregnancy is voluntary that the Supreme Court made its ruling, but on a decision that pregnant women simply do not belong in the labor force...
...women in the workplace must begin with a recognition that men and women play different biological roles, and an awareness that their needs--particularly in health care--are very different. If women are to have careers, sick pay for leaves incurred during pregnancy and for complications arising in childbirth must be included in comprehensive medical plans. The Supreme Court decision must be reversed if women are to advance beyond a choice between having a family and holding down...
...producing what--is not shouted from soapboxes, but many are quietly working to take more control of the production of their own lives, of their own health, food, transportation, education, and housing. Many women are learning to rely less on the gynecologist and the hospital during pregnancy and childbirth. Small-time gardening is booming and the produce is landing on dinner tables. Cooperative day-care centers are on the rise. Bicycles have never sold so well...
...Like Childbirth. On amenities at the average TV or radio studio, Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler wrote recently that the best you can hope for "is something brown, reminiscent of coffee, poured into a Styrofoam cup that, in most cases, you are advised to hold onto as it must also serve as your on-camera ashtray." Authors sometimes deserve no better. When Gore Vidal appeared to do New York's Casper Citron radio show, recalls Citron, "he walked in and said, 'Cash my check for $50, get me a drink, and what's your name?' " Vidal admits...
...regardless of Winig's endorsement, the doctors downstairs don't encourage women to ask for IUDs, especially if the woman has not had childbirth. "I'm not very fond of the IUD," says Blevins. "I don't think women tolerate their IUDs very well. I could learn to put them...