Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's admission into the inner circles is a sign that the administration is becoming more sensitive. Women leaders must take advantage of this to encourage reforms that further open decision-making and widen the agenda. Their voice in top meetings is new to their male co-workers-what they raise as women's issues may get a more willing reception now than at any other time...
...study of Congressional initiatives about women found the presence of women politicians pushed issues beyond discussion into tangible reforms. According to another study, an overwhelming majority of male leaders said the presence of female leadership means that they will be more likely to consider how legislation affects women...
...There is fear that women who play men's games will grow indistinguishable from male power seekers, that women who win entry and learn how to survive in male institutions will not care about social change to benefit other women or to transform the society's priorities," Mandel said...
When Ann Hopkins came up for partnership at Price Waterhouse in 1982, she looked like a shoo-in for a promotion. Of the 88 candidates -- all the others were male -- she had the best record at generating new business and securing multimillion-dollar contracts for the Big Eight accounting firm. Yet Hopkins' nomination was put on hold after she was evaluated by several male partners as being too "macho" and in need of a "charm school." One of them advised her to "walk more femininely, talk more femininely, dress more femininely, wear makeup, have her hair styled and wear jewelry...
...have led to the assumption, widely held, that Lawrence was homosexual. Editor Malcolm Brown, the co-author of an earlier biographical study of Lawrence, strongly disagrees, and the evidence of the letters supports his dissent. Lawrence repeatedly expressed his abhorrence of physical contact with any fellow creature, female or male. He puzzled over fairly basic questions: "The period of enjoyment, in sex, seems to me a very doubtful one. I've asked the fellows in this hut (three or four go with women regularly). They are not sure: but they say it's all over in ten minutes...