Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time, the club voted to drop the word Radcliffe from its name, a measure that some former club members contend led female members of the club to feel that they did not stand on equal ground with the male members of the organization...
...your argument that first-year still conjures up the image of a male, if Harvard accepted equal numbers of male and female students, this problem might not seem so severe...
...professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, notes that of a firm's variable costs--charges that come on top of fixed expenses like lease payments--state and local taxes make up at most 3%. Giveaways are likely to have little impact unless other factors are virtually equal...
Despite the angst over Packwood's wet kisses, the sexual-harassment wars are still lopsided. Three women and a tape apparently don't equal one man whose feelings were hurt. Debbie Henson was let go by the Republican National Committee after five months on the job. She has sued the R.N.C., describing a put-out-to-get-ahead atmosphere where backrubs, lap sitting and being called "pretty thing" were not unusual. Sexual-harassment fatigue kept Henson's suit from getting much attention until an R.N.C. video surfaced. In one skit, national convention manager Bill Greener hires a well-endowed stripper...
Blacks have never been afforded equal opportunity. First, they are hemmed into segregated neighborhoods with poorly-funded schools. Second, they are passed over in job searches because employers consciously exclude applicants from inner-city neighborhoods. Third, and above all, they are hurt by employers' reliance on informal hiring networks--such as recommendations from friends and co-workers--rather than on formal employment agencies seeking to place minorities into the work force...