Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold mine of statistical and factual information. It will be an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the social status of women worldwide. Each essay is accompanied by detail after detail on the role of women in all spheres of society--female employment, wage differentials, participation in government, equal rights legislation. More than one-third of all families in the world, we learn, are now headed by women, and the statistics on the number of these families with incomes below national poverty lines lead credence to recent observations of a "feminization of poverty...
...apartheid on our lives creates pressures to relegate 'women's issues' to a remote priority," writes Motlalepula Chabaku, the national president of an outlawed multi-racial woman's organization Chabaku writes that "women's issues" actually impact the lives of all Black South Africans, especially the idea of equal pay for equal work...
Cooper may be the equal of Blair, but the rest of the Colgate squad can't begin to match the Crimson's speed, and isn't big or strong enough to pound the hosts into submission...
...notion of helping the disadvantaged or promoting upward mobility is rendered irrelevant if the federal government does not even allow every American to get an equal education. Without equal access to the best colleges and universities, all attempts to create an equal opportunity society are doomed to failure...
...professional relationships only exacerbates the already pressing problem of sexual harassment at Harvard. True co-education mean not only that male and female students learn side by side but that women and men teach side by side too. Until such a time when women are accepted as full and equal peers and colleagues, until male and female students have role models of both sexes, professional relationships between faculty members as well as student-faculty relationships will continue to be bounded by and limited to the realm of the sexual. (In this context, it is easy to infer that student peer...