Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State laws have traditionally formed not just an undergrowth but a lush jungle of archaic restrictions, limitations and protections based on the 19th century notion of a female as the dependent property of a father or husband. In Georgia, the legislature has stubbornly refused to repeal an 1863 law that defines a woman's legal existence as "merged in the husband." In Arizona, insurance companies may still cancel a divorced woman's insurance (but not a man's) on the grounds of "instability...
...superior court agreed with him that housekeeping has economic value: Wasiolek, who looks forward to the day she can return to her nursing career, was already providing her share of support by staying home and caring for her children. It was a hollow victory for her, since her former husband is now unemployed, and paying less child support, and she is still on welfare. But her landmark case established for the women of Pennsylvania that equality does not mean women will be forced out of their homes into paying jobs...
When Lynda Ballard, 31, a veteran of 750 parachute jumps, learned that Husband Gene, 34, who has made 1,800 skydives, wanted to end their 15-year marriage, she refused to accept the divorce papers. "Hell no!" she said. "You'll have to give them to me in free fall...
...week with the announcement that Brandt, 65, and his Norwegian-born second wife, Rut, 58, were "taking legal steps to dissolve their marriage by mutual consent." Straitlaced Germans were saddened by the breakup of Brandt's 30-year marriage, but not terribly surprised. Rut had stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending divorce to "not just one reason but an accumulation of things." The main thing seemed...
...field. "It was neater than most women's locker rooms I've seen," she reported. "The players' clothes were all neatly hung." Admits Kearns: "I'm willing to let someone else be the first woman in there when players are dressing." Still, as Husband Richard, a former presidential speechwriter, pointed out, "Thirty years from now you'll be a baseball trivia question...