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...historical anecdotes illustrate Harvard’s male-centrism. Prior to 1967, Radcliffe women were excluded from Lamont library. Throughout the 1970s, male students outnumbered women by a ratio upwards of three to one. The 1999 merger of Radcliffe College with Harvard caused the disappearance of both the financial support and the space Radcliffe provided for female students. A particularly large loss was the Lyman Common Room in Radcliffe Yard, which served as a de facto women’s center and left Harvard as the only Ivy League institution without a comparable space. Even as recently as 2002, Harvard...
...Three years ago, positive descriptions of Bush far outnumbered negative ones. In the past two years, the positive-negative ratio has been more nearly equal. This time, 48% of those polled used a negative word to describe Bush; just 28% picked a positive term; 10% chose neutral language. Six respondents chose a word that everyone could agree on: "President...
...date, March 14, is regarded as a representation of the first three digits of pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter...
...Which means, at the very least, getting enough attention. Across Australia, a mish-mash of standards means staff-to-child ratios vary widely from state to state. In New South Wales, for example, there must be one carer for every five children under the age of three; in Queensland the maximum ratio is 1 to 4. Another essential is qualified staff. More child-care centers mean more jobs, but the industry struggles to keep workers from deserting the profession because of burnout and low wages - a qualified child-care worker might get $A35,000 a year. At Whittlesea Child Care...
...really possible that a topic that preoccupies every mom I know is of little interest at all to the dads? The ratio of trend stories about Mommy Wars to Daddy Wars runs about 1000 to 1, if you leave out stories about hockey dads brawling on the sidelines. I have a couple of theories about this, but when I do my unscientific survey of evolved, educated, engaged dads, none of the answers really explains the missing half of the Work and Family debate. In fact when you hear a man talking publicly about wanting to spend more time with...