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...goes the reasoning, at least, of what Susan Faludi '81 argues was an anti-feminist "backlash" that swept America in the 1980s. In Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi convincingly refutes this argument. First, women are not even close to achieving full equality in the U.S., and in the last decade they have made strides backwards. Second, many widely accepted social theories present a distorted view of how women feel, think and behave. And finally, opponents of the women's movement, and not the movement itself, have hurt women...
...just some guy grabbing you and pushing you in a closet and saying, 'If you don't let me fondle you, I'm going to fire you,' " explains Susan Faludi, author of a new book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. "It's more the subtler form of making women uncomfortable by turning the workplace into a locker room and then telling them, 'What's the matter, you can't handle it? You wanted equality; I'm going to give it to you with a vengeance...
...Faludi cites the case of Diane Joyce, who fought for 17 years to become the first female skilled crafts worker in the history of Santa Clara, Calif. The real fight began after she finally started the job. When the roadmen trained Joyce to drive the bobtail trucks, says Faludi, they kept changing instructions; one gave her driving tips that nearly blew up the engine. She had to file a formal grievance just to get the pair of coveralls that she said were withheld from her. In the yard the men kept the ladies' room locked, and on the road they...
...stand. Harvard out of South Africa! William McKibben '82 David Edelstein '81 Scott Rosenberg '81 Paul Attanasio '81 Jim Hershberg '82 Katherine States '80 Robert Boorstin '81 Joseph Dalton '79 Paul Englemayer '83 Adam Cohen '84 Tracy Sivitz '83 David DcMilo '80 Andrew Multer '79 Richard Weisman '78 Susan Faludi '81 Michael Miller '84 Sarah Paul '84 Jeffrey Toobin '82 Former Crimson editors
...Faludi also says students have forgotten that faculty or administrators "could not be prosecuted for breaking the same rules as students." It is not clear what she had in mind, nor why it is relevant to the question of student participation on CRR. While it is true that the Faculty's CRR has jurisdiction only over complaints of students violations of the Resolution, officers of the University are not exempt from its provisions...