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...Motherhood and Co-Optation
...more tolerant over the last few generations. One can glimpse the changes in small incidents of the popular culture. When Ingrid Bergman became adulterously pregnant by Roberto Rossellini in 1949, she was all but stoned out of the country. Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, anticipating the joys of unwed motherhood and fatherhood, have aroused only minor indignation. Middle Americans accept Bayard Rustin as an eminently sensible black moderate now, but only a few years ago they thought him a firebrand. The idea of socialized medicine gives apoplexy to the A.M.A., but not so much any longer to the patients. Middle...
...really think we believe in apple pie and motherhood." I said quite seriously. The pretty Cliffic next to me smiled...
...sewer tax rates in the country," says Stefanski. "I figured we'd double the rates to amortize our bonds." To persuade the people to pay, Stefanski enlisted newspaper support, lined up citizen groups and got 33 suburban governments to endorse the plan. "It became like apple pie and motherhood," he recalls. "No one could be against clean water." Last fall Clevelanders approved the bond issue by a vote of 2 to 1, giving it more "yes" votes than any other proposal on the ballot. In five years, Cleveland should have the best sewage system in the U.S., one capable...
...they can lose if they are ambitious, because many practical obstacles may prevent their careers. The society that considers marriage and motherhood sufficient goals for women can, and does, discriminate against them as students and careerists without feeling guilty. Although this country has one of the highest proportions of working women in the world, it falls far behind European countries in its postgraduate training of women, and in its acceptance of women in the professions. In graduate schools, men are notably preferred. Jobs that lead to promotion almost invariably fall...