Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is much more than Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law and a Christian first lady in a Buddhist land. She is also a pert, sloe-eyed and strong-willed feminist who, as a member of the National Assembly, pushed through a "chastity law" that reins in freewheeling husbands and gives wives more freedom to plan their own lives. To outspoken and powerful Madame Ngo, the cheating husbands of the journalistic world are the foreign correspondents, who are not subject to the Directorate General of Information "guidance" that all South...
...chairman: Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, whose gloomy columns on South Viet Nam have generally mirrored Diem's line. "He fully understands the situation here," said Madame Ngo. When her guest politely replied that neither he nor his colleagues always agreed with Columnist Alsop, Madame Ngo showed her best feminist style. "Well," said she, "if you won't be convinced by people who really know the truth, then I can't help...
...Outraged. It turns out that women are mainly free in sex and speech. They have scarcely begun to use their brains. Of the top-rank high school seniors who skip college, two-thirds are girls. The proportion of girls in college has slipped from 47% in 1920 (a vintage feminist year) to 37% now. Only a little more than half of all college girls get a bachelor's degree. For every 300 women capable of earning a doctorate degree, only one does. In utilizing women's brains, Russia outdoes the U.S.: 30% of Soviet engineers...
...Militant Feminist Lalla Aisha of Morocco made her first public speech in the cause of female emancipation at the age of 17. She urged the veiled and backward women of her land "to participate ardently and usefully in the life of the nation." The speech automatically earned her the leadership of the Moroccan feminist movement (TIME cover, Nov.11, 1957) for she was a princess, the daughter of King Mohammed...
...year-old Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. From a soundproofed office inside the palace, Nhu operated his own political party, the Can Lao, an elite group of 70,000 that was under orders to spy on the citizenry. There were also mutters about Nhu's wife, a pretty, dynamic feminist who carried on her own battles as a member of the National Assembly. She irritated many by ramming her "Family Code" through the legislature, forbidding divorce except by presidential decree, and making adultery a prison offense...