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...timing certainly was not propitious: Wright will become a household presence next month when he chairs the Democratic National Convention. The work of the twelve-member bipartisan committee is unlikely to be completed by the time the Democrats meet in Atlanta, but Wright's folksy style and saccharine smile may seem just a bit more strained than usual...
Horner described a world recently changed byadvanced technology and the new role of women,"propelling us into an age of interdependence, anage for which we are not fully prepared." She saidtechnology has made society more international andthe two-income household has created economicinterdependence between men and women...
...Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters on the eve of his trip to Moscow for this week's superpower summit. "I just wonder...
Help may be on the way. Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps prodded by his wife, is taking a more active interest in women's issues than any other Soviet leader since Lenin. His concern may be largely pragmatic. He knows that Soviet women, despite their subordinate status, generally control the household purse strings, taking charge of the husband's paycheck and handing him back a small weekly allowance. If Gorbachev is to introduce price reforms and alter spending habits, he will need the cooperation of women. He has already eased in some reforms that should make life easier. The average minimum wage...
Bobbie Battista, an anchorwoman for Cable News Network, is not exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...