Word: patternings
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...home and raise their children, the Good Housekeeping ads of the New Traditionalist, the notion of the Mommy Track; to her, they all implied that the postfeminist woman was the one who had sampled having it all and preferred to give most of it up. In fact, the pattern of the '80s was dictated by economic reality: 69% of women 18 to 64 work today, in contrast to 33% in 1950. "There may be women being laid off, but they are not going home because they want to," says Karen Nussbaum, executive director of 9 to 5, an advocacy group...
...irony not lost on the town, Kreimer began using some of the legal knowledge he picked up in the library stacks. Working as his own lawyer, he filed a civil rights suit alleging a pattern of police harassment...
Lane maintained that the absence of women in commissioned sales positions revealed a pattern of discrimination at Sears...
...West Side of Manhattan's West Side. He is a lawyer with a seemingly bottomless ability to dish out verbal abuse to his wife, and is a thoroughly repellant figure. She, on the other hand, is a static person, spending her days wandering through museums and selecting the correct pattern for that year's Christmas cards...
Wang's research began in 1987 when, he says, sunspot activity was on the rise. "I was reading a report published by the Beijing Observatory while waiting for a haircut and noticed a very interesting pattern of sunspot areas in it," Wang said...