Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faludi: The surveys I've looked at indicate that roughly the same proportion of working men as working women fantasize about retreating to the home. Moreover, sometimes it's very hard to know what one thinks under the pressure of the backlash, to sort out what's you thinking and...
The are some political sources of BAD ideas on campus. Take the conservative view that homosexuality is "deviant" and "unnatural"--an inexplicable belief given that homosexuals have always existed in the same proportion in every past society.
In its 175 year history, Harvard Law School has never hired a member of any of these groups. The proportion of Women law professors at HLS is one-third of that nationwide. While there are over 16,000 African-American law graduates since 1980, Harvard has only 3 tenured African...
Susan Bailey, the report's chief author, says differences persist in math because "girls are still not participating in equal proportion to boys in advanced-level courses." Specifically, 7.6% of boys choose calculus, compared with 4.7% of girls. As for science performance, Bailey says, "the gap may be getting wider...
James J. Coady, principal of the Morse School,said the high proportion of immigrants in certainschools is due to a feeling of "comfortableness."