Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while I'm rather proud of the service women have given through religious orders, the fact remains that the leadership and decision-making power in the Church is in the hands of the clerics," Kelley said. "And the attitudes and views towards women are limited to the role of motherhood qualities; childbearing and rearing and keeping a happy home...
...fact I've found quite a mixture of attitudes in the Radcliffe community--some are frightened by all this pressure from the expectations put on women now, and some are experiencing a conflict because they find in themselves that the strongest desire is a natural desire of marriage and motherhood which if sketched out is a sterotypical role of the woman...
...home--very few come from broken homes--Bruch finds in the parents a deep disillusionment with each other. They are competing secretly to prove which is the better parent. The mother is likely to be an achievement-oriented woman, frustrated in her aspirations, very conscientious in her conception of motherhood, subservient to her husband without truly respecting him. The father, despite considerable social and financial success, feels second rate and is preoccupied with physical appearances. He admires fitness and beauty, and expects high achievements and good manners from his children...
...questionnaire study of 298 unmarried women, Psychologist Karen Paige of the University of California at Davis found that religious traditions had an influence on menstrual troubles. Among Jewish women, those who accepted the biblical ban on sexual intercourse during menstruation generally had the worst periods. Catholic women who saw motherhood as their goal had more menstrual troubles than Catholic women who were willing to pursue careers and childless marriage. Similarly, in a door-to-door survey of 1,000 men and women in northern California, Psychologist Paige found that those who celebrated the role of wife and mother were most...
...Saturday night" said George Kaufman. NBC's Saturday Night is proving him wrong. For 90 minutes, three out of four Saturday nights after 11:30, a small, subversive group of iconoclasts is throwing the air waves into disorder, tossing barbs at the presidency, the system, the revolution(s), motherhood, feminism, civil rights and democracy. Only on the air for four months, this live and unpredictable show is the season's surprise hit. It already has a loyal following of more than seven million. Says Dick Ebersol, 28, the network's late-night programming vice president...