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...their programs as the men could. In the track and field program, for example, women were only able to pay for one third of their amenity activities by themselves. At that time the graduates of women's athletics were too young, too few and too poor relative to their male counterparts that Radcliffe sports could not keep pace with the level of funds raised by the men, says Robert Rittenberg '55, chairman of the Friends of Harvard Track. While the men being solicited "were from the 20's, 30's and 40's," he says, the Friends of Radcliffe track...
...amenities of the Track and Field program have not suffered either since the male donators merged with their female counterparts in 1983, says Head Coach Frank J. Hagery '68. To date, these are the only two friends groups to share fundraising sources, although the Friends of Men's Tennis and Friends of Women's Tennis have entered into an agreement which will merge the two groups over a five year period...
...many cases, young couples were able to jump into the spiraling real estate market only because wives went to work: by 1983 more than 65% of all first-time home buyers needed two incomes to make payments on their mortgages. In 1949 the average 30-year-old male homeowner spent 14% of his earnings on mortgage payments; by 1983 the proportion had climbed to 44%. For some the sacrifice has meant forgoing additional children. Tom Cray, 36, of Rochester, and his wife Jean, 41, would like to have a second child, but they are not sure their two salaries will...
...child rearing. Even so, men are far more likely than women to have it both ways, both flat-out career and kids. Anthropologist Patricia McBroom, who teaches women's studies at Rutgers, cites research that shows that 60% of executive women have no children, vs. only 3% of their male counterparts...
...aims to sign up affiliates reaching more than 80% of the nation's viewers. Programming will include sitcoms, action-adventure shows and movies, little different from current network fare. But Fox executives claim their shows will be less subject to mass-audience pressures. "If we've got a good male action series," says FBC President Jamie Kellner, "we won't add children, dogs and females to make it appeal to other demographics." Though some are skeptical that Murdoch can enlist enough strong independent stations to become a full-scale competitor, industry observers are impressed so far. The signing of Rivers...