Word: genders
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...Gender also has an effect. Males and females start out with the same cholesterol levels, but around puberty boys experience a 20% to 25% drop in protective HDL and an ominous rise in LDL. This difference, researchers believe, is probably the reason why there are 60% fewer deaths from heart attacks in women than in men in the U.S. Race seems to play a part in how well the body handles cholesterol. Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of a long-term study in Bogalusa, La., has found that the changes in boys at puberty are more drastic in whites than...
Although we hope President Reagan stumbles over the gender gap in November, the recent decision is a dangerous precedent that threatens to outlive his tenure. Under the new ruling, universities may sexually discriminate so long as it is not in a program receiving any federal aid. This could lead to among other things, unequal treatment of women in hiring decisions, class selection, where limited, and athletics. Whereas previously Title IX insured the equal funding of both men's and women's sports, women's groups and civil liberties organizations are now predicting the revised law will lead to the demise...
There is increasing evidence that the gender gap is real; the President does not draw as well among women as he does among men. While he enjoys a 68% favorable rating among men, the figure for women is 55%. Among Republicans, Reagan is just as popular with women as with men (87%), but there is a gap of 16 points (52% vs. 36%) between Democratic men and women. When asked their objections to Reagan, more women (53%) give his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment than any other reason. Fear that he will lead the country into war comes second...
...turned out, most of the reporters did not even bother to write down Mondale's remarks. Yet, as they reminded themselves, at least they had been there, just in case. That scene is typical of the life of presidential-campaign reporters, who are known, with only slight gender inaccuracy, as the boys...
...coworkers. The dispute is the latest battle over the politically charged question of requiring equal pay for jobs of comparable worth. "Not only is this the civil rights issue of the '80s," says Ann Lewis of the Democratic National Committee, "but it may well be the gender-gap issue...