Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech before a crowded audience last night at the Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) said he wants to begin a national discussion on poverty, race and gender to awaken the national conscious...
Some students on campus also question Messer's and Mentavlos' accounts, pointing out that Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, the two other female knobs, are doing well. These people argue that the hazing was not about gender but about perceived weakness, especially as two males were being hazed at the same time; and of the 581 entering freshmen, 81 so far have dropped out. "Because it happened to others doesn't make it right," responds Mentavlos' lawyer, Timothy Kulp, who says his current bedside reading includes both The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy's famous novel about hazing...
...years of college through Hope Scholarships, and extending the Brady Bill to wife beaters and the Family and Medical Leave Law to people who take time off for parent-teacher meetings. Clinton has a good shot at getting these items, since the G.O.P. wants desperately to close the gender gap. But other parts of his agenda--rolling back $15 billion in welfare cuts and passing campaign-finance reform--are less likely...
...layoff, a divorce or the illness of a child. Exit polls, as well as interviews by TIME correspondents with voters in cafes and K Marts, indicate that this desire for a stronger safety net--and the suspicion that most Republicans don't understand it--explains much of the voting gender gap. Women feel more vulnerable than men to calamities like sudden single parenthood. And in today's tumultuous, hyper-competitive, global economy, which creates many new jobs but with less security, men as well as women can imagine themselves needing help someday to keep their health insurance during a period...
...actually think Harvard as a rule is a wonderful place for women to be," Seltzer says. "I've always been accepted for who I am and what I can do, independently of my gender...