Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer gender gap will soon be able to turn for advice to The Neuter Computer, a guidebook developed by New York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls to scheduling late-night computer pajama parties. The Project on Equal Education Rights, an offshoot of the National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund, publishes handy "equity action kits" that show teachers how to help girls avoid being trapped in "pink-collar ghettos." Warns Director Leslie...
Even among the leaders of the computer equal-rights movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...
HARVARD THEATERGOERS have seen their fair share of bizarre dramatic mutations--these days, no one dares balk at Shakespeare staged as a Sid Vicious rock opera or Brecht in a dormitory bathtub. Unfortunately, original student-written plays never seem to find equal stage time...
...mass volumes. Part of the problem is a difference in high-tech corporate culture. Says Richard Skinner, president of Integrated Circuit Engineering, a Scottsdale, Ariz., semiconductor-research firm: "In the U.S., the real glamour jobs are in designing the chips. But in Japan the manufacturing guys are equal." Indeed, each time U.S. companies have developed a larger-capacity memory chip (first the 1K dynamic RAM, then the 4K, 16K, 64K and now the 256K), Japanese manufacturers have quickly come up with a lower-priced version...
...World Fund of Portsmouth, N.H., avoids companies that make weapons, nuclear power equipment, liquor or tobacco products, or that have poor environmental or equal-opportunity records. Pax World invests in companies that do business in South Africa only if they are providers of food or medical supplies. Other similar social-investment firms include New Alternatives in Great Neck, N.Y., and the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Group, which offers both stock-and-bond and money-market funds. New York City's Dreyfus, one of the largest and most diversified of the general mutual-fund companies, operates a social-investment fund called...