Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early said topics union leaders planned to discuss at today's meeting included ways of escalating the strike, asking other unions for financial help and volunteers to join picket lines and pressuring NYNEX customers, bankers and outside directors to intercede with the company for concessions...
...would explain myself--politely--to a man who asked me to get him coffee. And I would hope that if he actually were so backward to think it was part of a woman's job responsibilities towards the male population of the office, I would help to bring him into the modern world...
They get little help from colleagues or corporations. "Women's work" is not respected in the marketplace or out of it, and skilled women executives who insist on shorter hours or home leave to do it are thought to have gone soft in the head. This is the Mommy Track problem, though Hochschild does not use the phrase. A Daddy Track is barely in sight, though some men might enjoy not having to seem conventionally ambitious and being able, like modern women, to drop into and out of their careers...
...such modest goals sound like crazed radicalism? Because, a male observer is forced to admit, men and male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner...
...riptide of Soviet unrest. It is midsummer in Washington, and the President is heavily engaged in trench warfare with Congress. But a part of his mind is on the extraordinary events in the Communist world and the possibility that before the year ends, he might be called upon to help bolster his weary Soviet counterpart. Strange bedfellows. Strange world these days...