Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode does have all the marks of a grade-Z whodunit, complete with an anonymous woman caller, a mysterious motel room in Scranton, Pa., purloined pages and sotto voce allegations of bad faith and perhaps even criminality. What is known is that Post Reporter Nancy Collins penetrated perhaps the most elaborate security precautions ever thrown around the birth of a book, and that her coup touched off a divisive row in the publishing community that some newsmen quickly dubbed "Scrantongate...
...lack of education are the two main problems West Virginia women must overcome, unlike many of their more affluent sisters in other regions. More than half of the Appalachian women live in rural areas; most of the 29 per cent who work outside the home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks. "It is dangerous...
...Yellow Pages gears itself to its audience in style and price as well as content. "We wrote it at a tenth to 12th grade reading level, which for many women is still too high," Daugherty says. Because Ms. Magazine and the Cabot Foundation underwrote the book, it may cost only 25 cents in places where welfare offices subsidize it further. Its readers' poverty dramatizes the need for such a book, Daugherty points...
...admissions office makes even less of a pretense of being fair when it comes to subjective criteria. These criteria always involve evaluation by an individual who seldom can or will be fair to Third World students. An example of this is the way the admissions office looks at grade point averages...
...civilian employment, women are not much better off. Only a third of them work outside the home, mostly in lower-paying jobs. Women account for only 9% of the higher-grade civil service positions, 2% of full professors, 1% of the nation's engineers. Only 6% of working women are employers or self-employed. Though the law calls for equal pay for equal work, many women are paid less than men for similar tasks, and, with a few exceptions, women are legally barred from nighttime work on the theory that it is potentially injurious to their health...