Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these days, favorite nonparents are to be honored with flowers and cigars. The organization has begun to publish a rather juvenile newsletter, Non-Sense, which, for example, recently charged that the March issue of Pageant "exceeded the bounds of all decency in extolling the virtues of motherhood." One member, Ellen Peck, has written a book that disparages motherhood mostly because it gets in the way of the glamour of a free life...
...Motherhood was almost a dirty word here-but it had its defenders. At the scientists' Environment Forum, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich blamed half the world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich's microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian...
...upon childbearing as a temporary leave of absence from the work force; they have often prepared for quick re-entry by choosing and studying for a career while still in college and keeping up with their fields after marriage. The older generation, however, was brought up to believe that motherhood was in itself a satisfactory career goal. Today, when they try to enter the labor market at mid-life after a decade or two of absence-or after never having worked at all-they find that employers consider them qualified for only the lowest jobs. The skills and knowledge that...
Catch-22. In two areas there is no lack of demand for women. In pediatrics, seemingly viewed almost as an extension of motherhood, supply has responded to demand and fully one-fifth of all pediatricians are women. Obstetrics and gynecology, the second specialty, is medicine's catch-22. The Engleman study and others show clearly that women prefer female obstetrician-gynecologists, but only a scant 6.8% of doctors in women's medicine are women...
...tantalizing mockeries that cannot be exercised." For centuries, organized medicine did little or nothing to ease this biological bondage-as it is regarded by many women today. That situation has changed drastically. Today new medical and legal attitudes are rapidly giving women virtually complete freedom from involuntary conception or motherhood...