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...maybe I should go easier on this consciousness problem. After all, when women begin to realize that they have it in them to be something besides the opposite sex, when they understand what forces are at work in them--social, biochemical and genetic forces--to hinder them from asserting themselves in fields dominated by men, they will certainly become better able to change the balance. They will recognize and value the difference between, say, former prime minister Golda Meir and the other nine women (Pat Nixon, Patricia Neal, Ethel Kennedy...) on Good Housekeeping's list of women most admired...
...employees' credit union for a loan, credit union administrators check to see if any warnings are on his record. The number of warning slips needed to prevent a loan is not known, but having warning slips on your record can prevent you from obtaining money. Warning slips also hinder a person from getting a summer job or renting an apartment, or anything for which a reference is needed, including job promotions...
...order are restored, and readers "may know love as love and not as the law." The Great Restorer is the godlike genius detective. Christie's own genius resided in a mind of intimidating clarity. She never allowed emotion or philosophical doubt to cloud her devious conceptions or hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a British airman, Colonel Archibald Christie...
...competition for fear of the negative consequences that may follow from winning. In fact research has shown that women who fear success in this sense do not follow careers even though they may have ample opportunity to do so--such as a PhD. and no husband or children to hinder them. Many women in our society have learned that being smarter than a man, outwitting or challenging him is not appreciated by large numbers of the male sex. Many men are simply not interested in women who are smarter, cleverer, more assertive than they are. So many women have learned...
...Sociologist James Coleman, now at the University of Chicago. He found that children of all races from disadvantaged backgrounds did "somewhat better" in schools that were predominantly middle-class than in schools that were mostly lower-class. Moreover, the presence of the poor children did not seem to hinder the progress of the more