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Born September 26, 1964 in Queens, Ronis wentto G.W. Hewlett High School, in the Long Islandtown bearing the same name--the exact town, Ericwryly remarks, which was recently listed "amongthe nation's 5 Jappiest townships in the JapHandbook...
...champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress. At fund raisers across California, high-tech execs like Hewlett- Packard Co-Founder David Packard and other businessmen such as Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" Member Armand Deutsch hail Zschau as "one of us" and provide a copious flow of campaign cash, expected to top $3 million...
America's divorce rate, one of the highest in the world, holds down female earning power, says Hewlett, and so does discrimination against women workers. But she thinks the major factor holding women back is their continuing burden in the home, particularly the responsibility of child rearing. Hewlett writes: "Ninety percent of women have children, and . . . it is precisely during the childbearing years that women fail to make the grade in the career struggle...
...women employed by major American corporations are mostly protected, she observes, more than 60% of U.S. working mothers have no right to take maternity time off. "American superwomen are meant to have children on the side, on their own time, and the less said about it the better," says Hewlett. "In this country there is little appreciation of the fact that having children is a societal imperative as well as a private choice, that children are a nation's collective future...
...British-born Hewlett, mother of four children, gained some of her knowledge about that problem the hard way. Part of the inspiration for Lesser Life grew out of her own agonies in juggling career and motherhood while teaching economics at Barnard College in the 1970s. Barnard granted no maternity leave at the time, and Hewlett claims that her inability to get time off during a difficult pregnancy contributed to her miscarriage of twins. Hewlett also relates that her department chairman warned that she might not gain tenure if she got pregnant again. Eventually she was refused tenure...