Word: libbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure had strong backing from Women's Lib, labor, civil rights groups and educational associations. The Senate vote had been a lopsided 63 to 17, but many Republicans who had supported the bill originally fell into line behind the President. Thus the bill's backers could not muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override Nixon's veto...
With a few exceptions-Wonder Woman was into Women's Lib 20 years before Betty Friedan-the comics have always appealed to men more than women, to little boys more than little girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned...
...Barnard College. But while the men mounted the barricades, the women mostly sat in the back rooms, cranking out leaflets or making peanut-butter sandwiches. Many of them resolved then and there never again to defer to male "machismo trippers." Since that time, the cause of Women's Lib in academe has flourished. Next to local voting rights, it is now the most visible cause on major campuses that otherwise seem free of controversy and revolt this year...
Heeding the call for social responsibility, many corporations now try to fill managerial posts with blacks or women. An even more logical solution, though, would be to employ persons who can meet the demands of both the N.A.A.C.P. and Women's Lib: black businesswomen. Is this rare breed finally emerging? The answer depends on where one looks. Black businesswomen are practically nonexistent in the executive suites of major corporations. The other side of the token is that they have begun to appear in fields as varied as advertising, stockbrokerage and banking...
...black businesswomen turn to Women's Lib for help? Not at all. Explains Kansas City's Inez Kaiser: "This Women's Lib thing is created by a bunch of frustrated, middle-class white women who want to be liberated from the boredom of housekeeping. Black women have always had to work...