Word: childlessness
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...female attorney general as "instructive of many of the issues we face." She said that after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood were denied the position, the running joke in Washington was that for President Bill Clinton to find a suitable female candidate he would have to locate "a childless woman with a dirty house. So along came Janet Reno...
...problem," meaning child-care infractions. Its chief usage is in the accusative: "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" That was the question that brought down Kimba Wood as a candidate for Attorney General (even though her answer was "No"). It was also the question that helped pluck the childless and unmarried Janet Reno from relative obscurity to become the President's nominee for the job. No kids, no nanny, no Zoe Baird problem. Reno, 54, who appears to be well qualified for the post, doesn't even have an immigrant gardener: she mows her own lawn...
...instituting the Zoe Baird standard, Clinton has tilted the pool of potential appointees away from working parents toward the single, the childless, those with grown kids and even, God forbid, the millionaire types with stay-at-home wives who have dominated government for eons. (Sure, some of these folks could be vulnerable because they've employed maids and gardeners without paying taxes. But, provided such workers are not illegal aliens, an employer can argue that they are "independent contractors" responsible for their own paperwork.) The Cabinet is already shaping up to reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned...
NOTHING WRONG WITH TAKING A LITTLE ACAPULCO vacation without the children. When they're left behind with no adult supervision, though, it's a crime. David and Sharon Schoo of St. Charles, Illinois, found that out last week on returning from nine childless days in Mexico. The couple was arrested at O'Hare Airport and charged with felony child abandonment, cruelty to children and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for leaving alone daughters Nicole, 9, and Diana, 4. The girls were left with a refrigerator full of food and a note full of instructions -- but no information on how to contact their...
Everyone loses: the individuals denied their right OT enter into contracts, the mother who loses compensation without gaining more rights, and the childless couples who will have a harder time finding women willing to undertake the serious medical and emotional commitment of pregnancy on such terms...