Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women have always been shut out of the halls of political decision-making. Only 25 women are in Congress. They comprise less than 16 percent of state legislatures. With men holding the clutch on power, subtly putting down women's involvement with snide remarks like Babbitt's and overtly barring women from behind-the-scenes decision-making, the attitudes and means of exclusion are reinforced...
Currently, only 27 percent of Government department concentrators are women. This number is dropping. No wonder...
Branion, who is Black, downplayed both the existence of racial animus on campus and the importance of the fraternity system, noting that only 38 percent of undergrads are fraternity or sorority members. "They are not as influential as an outsider might think," he said...
INDEED, by all indications, the racial climate at Duke should be exemplary. The number of minority students has increased dramatically over the past four years, from about four percent in the class of '89 to almost 10 percent in the class of '93. Duke even has a standing organization, Interact, devoted to improving race relations...
...Duke frats, I saw pervasive, overt intolerance. And racial minorities are not the only victims. One Duke student told me "They say ten percent of the student body is gay. But they're so in the closet--if you're gay, no one knows about it. They just go to tearooms...