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...this type of assistance to women finally became federal law with the passage of Title IX, which mandated equal opportunity for men and women in all aspects of collegiate life. At first, colleges were under the impression that equal opportunity meant only that the budget of the university had to be set so that men and women's sports programs would be of the same quality, says Joseph D. Bertagna '73, the executive director of the Harvard Varsity Club, which serves as a liaison between alumni and the college. Later, though, the courts ruled that it was not fair...
...awards banquet sponsored by the friends, "there wasn't even the question of inviting women to the dinner" in 1960, Bancroft says. In the mid-60s, only wives were allowed to attend the festivities while later in the decade rowers were allowed to be accompanied by "credited females," which meant a girlfriend of wife...
...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 stretch to cover the mortgage and two children. Says Cray: "It's depressing to think human life has a price...
...playing Mr. Mom has meant more than learning the way to Toys R Us. They have discovered, somewhat to their surprise, the private joys of daily child rearing that women have always known. In the Yankelovich poll for TIME, 63% of 30- to 40-year-olds stated that "raising children is a main satisfaction in my life." Revering and caring for children has served as an antidote to some of the egocentric tendencies of the Me generation. "We were taught that we were the most important people in the world," says Columnist Greene, who became a father...
Jhabvala, 59, knows more about the challenges of living and writing in India than she ever meant to learn. Born in Germany of Polish parents and educated in England, she married a visiting Indian architect and went home with him in 1951. Except for this accident of the heart, she writes, "I don't think I would ever have come here for I am not attracted--or used not to be attracted --to the things that usually bring people to India." She was not, in short, a do-gooder, a foreign-service careerist or a spiritual pilgrim. But her European...