Word: equal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women have got themselves together in the past couple of decades, if they have learned, as feminists, to demand respect, orgasms, equal pay, coed housework, vice-presidential nominations and the right to run the marathon in the Olympic Games, can men be far behind...
...transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...
...these comments reflect underlying, commonplace assumptions that have led many women students and faculty to believe they cannot live as equal members of this community. Asked about sexual harassment, many women (as well as a substantial number of men) point repeatedly to the more fundamental problem of sexism on campus. One women junior faculty member writes, "I think [if] Harvard could be less of a male club with all those attitudes and values my own annoyances would disappear." A tenured woman professor remarks on the survey, "Only males sent this out; the university harasses females by having only males...
...faculty and staff; it can change the number of those minds that are female and, in so doing, strike a blow at the structural factors that give rise to sexism. Moving swiftly to hire more female professors and administrators is still the best hope to creating a more equal academic climate for men and women...
...tribal "homelands" would still be denied political rights. In addition, Blacks would still be regarded as foreigners; homeland chiefs will continue to act as a bogus government voice for Black Africans, silent partners in the apartheid system. The foundation of the apartheid ideology--that separate must be equal and that whites were given power in South Africa by divine authority--would remain...