Word: egalitarian
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...There has been a deterioration in the physical and emotional health of children," says Fuchs. "It is caught up in some way with the failure to resolve the gender issue. The fundamental problem is to deal with the problem in an egalitarian context without short-changing the children...
Fuchs says he sees two sides to the gender issue in labor economic research. There is an analytical interest and a policy interest for scholars. "Analytically, we want to know why discrimination occurs," he says. "The policy interest is to try to make an egalitarian society...
...major problems is that the government seems to view education first as a privilege, and they don't view it in egalitarian terms," says James B. King, Northeastern's senior vice president for government and community affairs...
...voting is egalitarian, but that may be one of its problems. Last summer NARAS sent a form to each of its 8,000 members and to executives at the major record companies soliciting nominations for recordings released during the 12 | months ending last Sept. 30. Each member -- including singers, songwriters, album-cover designers, engineers and producers -- is allowed to recommend up to five candidates in each award category. That list becomes the ballot that is mailed out to the 6,000 members eligible to vote...
...questions, doubts and fears surrounding these children are some of the most wrenching consequences of the nation's decision to develop an all- volunteer military and to give women an expanded and more egalitarian role in it. Only now is the Pentagon conducting a survey to determine how many single parents and military couples with minor children are on active duty. Some experts guess that 140,000 people are married to others in the military and that 67,000 single parents are in the U.S. armed forces. Suddenly, many mothers and fathers who joined the services in peacetime to begin...