Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sexual harassment is the above of one's authority as an instructor to emphasize the sexuality of the student. The unwitting student thus becomes a sexual being with no individual identity beyond her his gender. Sexual harassment is more than a personal issue between the harasser and victim; it becomes sex discrimination on the broadest scale. When a man harasses one woman, he is threatening all women...
...politicians, the initials stand for the most fashionable topic among pollsters today: the "gender gap" between men and women voters. That difference is expected to play a meaningful role in the November balloting. Says Pollster Louis Harris: "Women are as pivotal as any single group in this election...
...Ronald Reagan; at the time, the disparity was attributed to his opposition to the ERA and abortion. In congressional races, according to Harris, women supported Democratic candidates over Republicans by 52% to 48%; men favored Democrats by 54% to 45%. Samplings of voters since then show that the gender gap was not just a response to Reagan or particular issues in the 1980 campaign. Indeed, a Harris survey last month revealed the gender gap had widened considerably, with women (53% of all registered voters) preferring Democratic candidates 53% to 38% and men backing them 46% to 44%. Analysts note that...
Fund raising is a major priority, both for women candidates and women political organizers. The gender gap, they realize, will have little effect if women voters are not made aware of sympathetic candidates and educated on important issues. Since they are not plugged into established, male-dominated political action committees, women are relying on their own burgeoning P.A.C.s. Groups of nurses, social workers and teachers are all giving more money than ever this election season. The most ambitious effort to reinforce the gender gap is being made by the National Organization for Women, which expects to pour $3 million into...
...more petticoats and "fifty or sixty or even seventy yards of trimming" (including the boa) is rewardingly comical. Still, Oates' mock-Victorian diction has imposed its own restraints, as exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise of the lower ranges of the imagination, summon forth a prurient gratification, from these hapless pages...