Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women call in about equal numbers, so proportionately more women use Room 13's services, Perlman said...
...still disproportionately herded into so-called pink-collar jobs-teaching, clerical and retail sales work. The median salary for American women last year was only 60% that of American men. Indeed, 94.7% of those earning $15,000 or more in the U.S. are male. Women still do not get equal pay for equal work: Female high school teachers earn only 81% as much as their male peers, and female scientists receive 76% as much. Of the 301 people appointed to major jobs by President Carter, only 13% are women. There are only 17 women in Congress, and no woman...
...legislation has helped women advance in some areas. One example: the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 makes it illegal for a lender to deny a person credit on the basis of sex or marital status, a practice that often had made it difficult for women to get mortgages or personal loans. On the other hand, legislation for federal subsidy of child care centers for working mothers is stalled in Congress. Most important of all, the Equal Rights Amendment is still three states shy of ratification, with only 16 months left before the proposition expires...
Score a minor military victory for women. The Air Force ruled last week that pregnant cadets no longer need resign, or face expulsion from the Air Force Academy. They may simply go on "excess leave," without pay or allowances. The junior service concluded that they deserve the "equal protection" guaranteed any other cadet burdened with "temporary conditions that preclude participation in training." Like anyone with an incapacitating illness, a pregnant cadet may return to the academy's Colorado Springs campus when her "temporary condition" no longer exists. But she may not bring the baby along with her (women...
...Rockefeller group used equal inventiveness in tackling thalassemia (Cooley's anemia), which afflicts an estimated 3 million people globally-most of them of Mediterranean and Asian origin. Victims of this genetic disorder can usually be kept alive by regular blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi...