Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article stated that, at the 1984 U.S. Open tennis championships, Vitas Gerulatis--a former Top 10 player--had said he was tired of comparisons between Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe, and that Navratilova couldn't beat the 100th-ranked male, let alone Mr. McEnroe...
...Bond could adapt to the Zeitgeist. With an eye toward detente, he found villains in rogue warriors, not cold warriors. Indeed, in A View to a Kill, "Comrade Bond" is awarded the Order of Lenin. One of these days, he might even get a citation from Ms. magazine. The male chauvinist piggy is still susceptible to European beauties of no fixed abode or accent, but now he relies on their intelligence and independence. They can fight manfully; he can fall in love...
What is true, however, is that most female artists, like most male ones, are not very talented and live ill-known in a catastrophically overcrowded art world. Thus it is easy for Ms. Anybody, M.F.A., to blame the obscurity of her work on sexist machinations against her as a member of a class and plangently call for redress in quotas and affirmative action. Hence the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a grimly sentimental waste of money, an idea whose time is gone...
What do female college graduates have in common with male high-school dropouts? On average, they have been earning roughly the same amount of money: $20,000 for the women and $19,000 for the men. That is one of the dismaying findings of an economic study titled The American Woman 1987-88, which was released by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...page report indicates that the wage gap between male and female workers is far more entrenched than generally perceived, despite women's growing participation in the labor force. Women still bring in only 68 cents to the $1 earned by men, an inequity that is closing only about a penny a year...