Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Science grad student who was particularly active in the parent community at the time of Summers’ remarks. The statistics were telling: nationwide, women with children are less likely to enter the tenure-track, less likely to receive tenure, and more likely to leave academia entirely than their childless or male counterparts. And surveys at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that students with children, and particularly women, can face a discouraging environment. In a 2008 survey of the University’s student parents, 25 percent of respondents reported having advisers who were unsupportive of their family decisions...
...challenge of remaining watchable while playing it odious is one few actors can survive. Corddry, who has until now been best known for his appearances on The Daily Show, ably meets it. Childless, wifeless Lou is a bundle of anger and avarice, and writers Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris load him up with harshly hilarious lines. Upon the boys' arrival in Room 420 (wink, wink), Lou gets on the phone in an attempt to order hookers while demanding Ritalin from the Gen-Yer Jacob. "Oh, come on, every single one of you has Ritalin," he says in exasperation...
...Childless and twice married, Merkel was cast as an indulgent mother to the electorate during the 2009 campaign. Though she claims to bake the occasional plum cake, she doesn't exactly match the ideal of a German hausfrau. Her second husband, an eminent chemist, often ducks out of official events. "He needs the working day for his science," says Merkel. Such attitudes may have annoyed traditionalists, but her quiet determination has helped her gain broad support well beyond the Christian Democrats' core voters. Even among those who identify themselves as Social Democrats, Merkel's unstuffy pragmatism, social liberalism and commitment...
...that's not the only issue causing friction among states. Another is the fact that some good deeds will be punished under the health reform measures: states that expanded Medicaid coverage on their own - say, to include low-income childless adults under 65 - will get less federal aid than those that have been stingier with their Medicaid programs...