Word: mcbroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give their children more than just a good-night kiss. It helps that more men are willing to lend a hand with housework and 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...
ACQUITTED. Marie McBroom, 59, a New Jersey commodities trader; of six counts relating to illegal traffic in oil and gasoline, an offense that carries the death penalty under a law passed five months after her arrest; in Ikeja, Nigeria. Detained in February 1984 in an anticorruption sweep, McBroom argued that she had been an innocent go-between in the allegedly illegal oil deals. During her year of imprisonment in Nigeria, she contracted malaria and lost 40 lbs. She left for the U.S. the day of her acquittal...