Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's famed gender-gap problem, which the selection of Ferraro was supposed to intensify, is less a drag on the Reagan-Bush ticket than is often assumed. The Republicans actually led among women, 41% to 32%, although the margin among men was a much greater 21 points. The most striking gap, indeed, was an age division among women rather than a male-female difference. Women 35 or older preferred Reagan by 42% to 29%, a 13-point lead that was close to the President's margin among all people polled. But among women younger than...
...recent years scientists have attempted to take up where the philosophers and alchemists left off. The results have been disappointing. In the 1960s Dr. Landrum Shettles of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center created a sensation with his announcement that gender was influenced by the timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm...
...November much less a long shot than it was before the primary campaigns: the nomination of Geraldine Ferraro, the expectation of increased minority-voter turnout, and the improvement in Walter Mondale's newly impassioned delivery. The person responsible for all three is Jesse Jackson. He made the gender of the vice-presidential candidate a key issue, so that Mondale's choice seemed politically astute rather than eccentric. He got minorities to register and then endorsed Mondale, and he awakened depths of emotion and color in his fellow candidate that even Fritz did not know were there...
...spells "spider" in Dutch on the front of her house. Later that night, Reve finds himself tormented with particularly nasty castration dreams that feature Christine wielding a pair of scissors in her blue-painted claws. Lest we dismiss the scene as a chuckle at Reve's castration complex and gender anxiety, within the next few shots we're shown Christine, applying steel-blue nail polish and' gleefully waving a very real pair of scissors. When Reve looks at the beach, he sees a bloody, mutilated man emerging from the waves, taking a quiet walk, he is hit over the head...
...defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. Leaders of women's groups and women elected officials began meeting that summer to plan strategies to beat Ronald Reagan. Says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women: "Once we had proved the existence of the gender gap, we had to figure...