Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reply, revisionist researchers argue that their work offers a way to liberate women and transform society. If women's approach to life is acknowledged as authentic, they will no longer need to act like men. "What we are doing is more revolutionary than early feminism," declares psychologist Judith Jordan, co-founder of the women's studies program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "We believe that the culture, which has been one of power, objectification and violence, has to change. Women's sensitivity to relationship offers a special gift in making that occur...
...there a Daddy Track? No," says Edward Zigler, a Yale psychologist. "The message is that if a man takes paternity leave, he's a very strange person who is not committed to the corporation. It's very bleak." Says Felice Schwartz, who explored the notion of a Mommy Track in a 1989 article in the Harvard Business Review: "There isn't any forgiveness yet of a man who doesn't really give his all." So today's working stiff really enjoys no more meaningful options than did his father, the pathetic guy in the gray flannel suit who was pilloried...
...might be equally cynical about men opening up to other men. Atlanta psychologist Augustus Napier tells of two doctors whose lockers were next to each other in the surgical dressing room of a hospital. For years they talked about sports, money and other safe "male" subjects. Then one of them learned that the other had tried to commit suicide -- and had never so much as mentioned the attempt to him. So much for male bonding...
...slowly becoming a political plus, Geraldine Ferraro may eventually be remembered as the first woman vice-presidential candidate, not as the only one. And the next presidential bid by a woman will not just be remembered for having ended in tears, as Schroeder's did in 1987. Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, author of In A Different Voice, a landmark study of gender differences, argues that women have greater moral strength, a stronger ethic of care and overriding concern for making and maintaining relationships -- all qualities of a good politician. She has even said that feelings -- and, yes, tears...
...baby, not a lobotomy!" Heightening the rivalry, some of those who gave up the fast track pursue full- time parenting with a competitive drive honed in the business world. "It's not O.K. to just have an average child; you must have an improved child," complains psychologist Shari Thurer, of Boston University...