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There is some evidence, in fact, that many people, women in particular, have "downshifted" in an effort to cope. Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, found in a national survey of 1,000 people last year that 28% of the respondents had made a voluntary life-style change that involved a significant reduction in earnings: moved to a less stressful job, turned down a promotion or refused relocation. More and more mothers work part-time, though they routinely make less an hour than full-time workers doing the same job. And since 1990 the nation's mostly female temp...
...certainly sympathize with the seniors who have had to cope with both writing a thesis and taking a general exam. But there is a distinct difference between the research skills that a thesis requires and the breadth of knowledge that a general exam demands. They test two different aspects of the field: the thesis, one's ability to probe into a topic in depth and formulate an original argument, and the general exam, one's ability to synthesize three or four years of classes into cogent and intelligent essays...
...effect all this antidivorce rhetoric is bound to have on the children of people already divorced--and we're not talking about some offbeat minority. At least 37% of American children live with divorced parents, and these children already face enough tricky interpersonal situations without having to cope with the public perception that they're damaged goods...
...without notice, and a situation not dissimilar to the one described by the members of the classes of 1939, 1940 and 1941 is emerging. I would like to offer some ideas abut the impact these rapid developments have had on Harvard and its students and what possibilities exist to cope with these challenges in a beneficial...
...looking at the development of young women or, I should say, of teenagers growing into young women--the next life stage really, and how they cope and, in particular, poor girls who have grown into young women," she says...