Word: equal
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Today, an issue being pushed on campuses around women's rights, especially in relation to affirmative action, is the so-called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. Especially in this presidential election year, a number of women's groups have organized to confront candidates on the ERA and push for its support. The biggest push for passage has always been from educated, financially well-off women who want a bigger slice of the American pie--equal opportunity to be politicians, lawyers, doctors and business executives. But ever since the ERA first came up 50 years ago working women have...
...answer is that although it may help open the doors of professional schools etc., it has been used to attack protective laws and benefits that working class women fought long and hard to win. The ERA is worded very vaguely, "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged... on account of sex" and in every case we know of it has been used to cut out protective legislation, never to extend those benefits to men. Equal access to law school for a few, while a good thing, should not be at the expense of the millions...
...swear that I never took advantage of menstruation to keep any woman from equal status. Frankly, I find this dabbling in one's secretions, excretions or exudations in the name of self-knowledge and dignity unproductive and unnecessary. Messy even...
...ASIAN DEMOCRACY: Democracy is the only reply from this country to the encroachments of Communism all around us. We cannot fight Communism by another kind of dictatorship. This would only play into the Communists' own hands. We must base our weapon on equal challenges and equal opportunity, the right to have individual choices and individual views. If we put away these things, we are lost...
...years as music director in Utah is a tenure second among major orchestras only to Eugene Ormandy's 40 years in Philadelphia. Abravanel has built his orchestra gradually and carefully. "My musicians never give less than their best," he told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They are not the equal, by far, of the personnel in the Philadelphia Orchestra. But they communicate. They say something." The product is mostly homegrown; 52 players are from Utah, about 70% are Mormons. Jokes Concertmaster Oscar Chausow, formerly with the Chicago Symphony: "I lead the most devout string section in the country...