Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOMEN are reminded of their separate but equal status before they even arrive in Cambridge. Instead of getting accepted to Harvard, letters sent to female applicants simply congratulate them on admission to Radcliffe. Who applied to Radcliffe? Who wanted to frame a letter of admittance to Radcliffe? Certainly not the women who have worked hard--just as hard as their male classmates--to get into Harvard. Women don't want a slighted invitation...
...merger agreement should have put female undergraduates on an equal footing with their male counter parts. Instead, the very existence of Radcliffe continues to impede that equality. For students of the 1980s, Radcliffe seems a mere vestige of the days of forced eclusion and blatant gender discrimination. Discrimination is illegal, Harvard accepts women, and female students don't need constant reminders that they weren't always treated as fairly...
...possible that Wright may equal Meese in the sleaze game. Wright has been accused of giving jobs to his friends and sending a lot of business in the general direction of his home state--many of the same accusations that were leveled at Texan and former President Lyndon B. Johnson...
...country where husbands usually have the last word on everything, the Gorbachevs appear to enjoy an unusually equal partnership. "I'm very lucky with Mikhail," Raisa confided to a dinner companion during her 1985 trip to Paris. "We are really friends -- or, if you prefer, we have a great rapport." Mikhail seems to enjoy his wife's feistiness. After his British publisher asked him last April about the possibility of Raisa's writing a book, the General Secretary smiled and said, "My wife is a very independent lady. On this occasion, I will act as a messenger boy. She will...
Soviet women are largely unconcerned about what shorter working hours will mean for their careers. While officials contend that females have equal opportunities, women live with no such illusions. True, fields that are still male preserves in the West have long been open to equal employment in the Soviet Union. Women are train conductors and engineers, garbage collectors and construction workers, but often they receive less pay than their male colleagues. "It's not written in any law that women's salaries for the same work will be lower, but that's what happens," says Elena Weinstein, 35, who worked...