Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Business School professor, charging that she was denied tenure solely on the basis of gender, has brought suit in Federal court against the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur...
Control of one's reproductive destiny is as both feminists and the New Right fully understand, the key to women's entrance into society as full human beings. Only if women can become mothers when we want, if we want, can we overcome restrictive gender roles and gain the ability to face life with the same options that men take for granted. At the same time, there is no question that children who are brought into the world willingly will be better cared for than those...
...Gender roles are losing their definition as well, according to Mallardi. "Girls can play sports, because aggressiveness is accepted. And likewise, boys can dance...
...grueling 1,100-mile course traversed two mountain ranges, the Yukon River and the frozen Norton Sound. Besting 61 starters and unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled race. Two weeks into the 18-day trek, while her competition opted to sit out a fierce snowstorm, the musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this...
...second important movement that Engel sweeps under his journalistic rug is the gender-bending by pop icons like Michael Jackson and Boy George. Anne Hollander gives a provacative, hit-and-miss analysis of these male musical mannequins who are "Dressed to Thrill" in the January 28th edition of The New Republic...