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...very real sense, our TIME/Rockefeller Foundation poll shows that women have become dominant in our society. Women will soon constitute a majority of the workforce; they earn 57% of college degrees; they make 75% of buying decisions in the home. At the same time, the poll found that women are not terribly concerned with equality issues, nor are they patting themselves on the back for their pre-eminence--they are simply dealing with the often bewildering changes and uncertainty in our economy as breadwinners, spouses, mothers and daughters. It's not the anachronistic battle of the sexes anymore...
...special women's issue we did in 1972, in which we explored--excuse the phrase--the New Woman. (That phrase was more than 100 years old at the time.) As Nancy Gibbs notes in her smart story--which is accompanied by an extensive, graphic look at the poll--there were no female Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet members or network anchors in 1972. Part of our package revisits some of the women we profiled back then, including one who worked for years as a welder and is now the only female crane operator at the Kennedy Space Center. NBC Nightly...
...special report is also a collaboration with Maria Shriver, who has overseen a wide-ranging study called The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything along with the Center for American Progress, and who will also be revealing some exclusive findings from our poll on Meet the Press on Oct. 18. Maria, the First Lady of California and an irresistible force in her own right, also oversees California's annual Women's Conference, one of the nation's premier forums for women to come together to discuss vital issues. Held on Oct. 26-27, this year's conference will...
JULIAN BOND, chairman of the NAACP, during an Oct. 11 speech in which he urged African Americans to support the right of gays to wed. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of black Protestants oppose same-sex marriage...
...stalling tactic. The E.U. has no power over issues of private property and the Charter of Fundamental Rights cannot be applied retrospectively. But in parts of the Czech Republic, where the wounds of the war are still surprisingly fresh, the property-claim issue has deep resonance. In a national poll published in the Lidove Noviny newspaper on Oct. 16, 65% of Czechs said they backed Klaus' stance on the exemption...