Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might as well have been a vote for motherhood or apple pie or sunshine...
...remember the fairy tale: the beautiful American movie star marries a European prince and devotes her life to motherhood, good works and society balls. That's why NBC is calling the life story of Princess Grace Once Upon a Time Is Now. The 90-minute special airing May 22 is a melange of old movie clips, photographs, and interviews with Grace, 47, Prince Rainier, Alfred Hitchcock (who directed three of her films) and William Holden and James Stewart, two of her costars. Hostess and narrator of the show is Lee Grant. "Princess Grace is not a cardboard personality," insists...
...fight goes may have grave repercussions later on for Carter and his programs: the memories of Senators and Congressmen run long, and they can nurse their grudges as bitterly as the Medici. With the possible exception of motherhood, there is nothing more sacred to many members of Congress than the physical evidences of the power that Carter is trying to limit: gigantic dams, huge reservoirs, aqueducts that run for hundreds of miles, all proof-cast in concrete-of the legislators' concern for the folks back home. What is more, there is no sure way of measuring the true value...
...biggest, if least predictable, element in the fertility rate is the attitude of the American woman. As the economic, social and political status of women has improved, the desirability and mystique of motherhood has declined. Says Princeton's Charles West-off, a world-renowned demographer: "There is a very pronounced change in the attitude of women toward marriage, childbearing and working, and all these attitudes seem to lead in one direction: they don't want three or four children." As Berkeley Demographer Judith Blake Davis puts it succinctly: "You won't find those sacrificial mothers any more...
...company health plans need not provide benefits for disabilities related to pregnancy marks a serious step backward for women's rights in this country. By deciding (by a six-man majority) that General Electric need not give pregnant employees sick pay, the court lent legitimacy to the idea that motherhood and employment are mutually exclusive...