Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploit that gender gap fully, some Democrats are flirting with an idea that has as much risk as logic: nominating a woman to run for Vice President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is behind it. So are Democratic Governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Richard Celeste of Ohio. The National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus are scrambling to line up organized support for a woman Vice President. In recent weeks, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart have been asked at every stop whether they would run with a woman; Jesse Jackson already has promised...
...associate director of the program, Miller will be the primary contact for recruiting prospective applicants and will serve on the admissions committee. She said she is "looking to bring people of non-traditional backgrounds--especially in terms of color and gender--into the making of public policy...
...balance, where men are taught to value toughness and linear vision as masculine traits that enable them to think strategically from conquest to conquest, from campaign to campaign without looking back, without getting sidetracked by vulnerable feelings, there is, and will be, an emotional difference between the sexes, a gender gap that may even appear on a Gallup poll...
...after showing a certain range of emotions which women are expected to feel. Brownmiller can only question this disparity between men and women in the most cautious terms. "It would be premature to answer" the question of whether there is a natural gender-specific set of emotions. One would like to ask Brownmiller who she expects will provide the answer--and when...
Traditionally, says Blonsky, semiotics has done little about such reverses of its theory, tending to try only to "deconstruct" each ads to show why they are attractive. Books like Gadvich's Gender Advertising have picked apart such ads to show what kinds of needs the ads are addressing. For example, ads in which women are playfully sprayed at with hoses, or hit with pillows, have, according to Godvich, emphasized a cultural tendency to want to see women babied. However, new kinds of advertisements have shifted away from cultural tendencies like these to take on newer, more diverse ones...