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Some feminists have noted the irony that the vice presidency is a sort of caricature of second-class citizenship. The office is, in fact, a parody of the subordination that women have endured in the past as wives and officeworkers. Again, the man would have all the power and responsibility, and the woman would sit around waiting for the phone to ring...
What happened, particularly for the 14,000 who attended the Houston meeting, was an end to the psychological isolation that had constrained their activities and ambitions. They learned that many other middle-of-the-road, American-as-Mom's-apple-pie women shared with them a sense of second-class citizenship and a craving for greater social and economic equality. Said Ida Castro, an alternate delegate from New Jersey: "It was a total high to get together and discover so many people who agree on so many issues, and finding that I am not alone...
...Heart Surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, urged the government to classify Lize as white. Said he: "It is the innocent who suffer in these matters." At week's end no one had yet decided whether Lize would go through life enjoying the privileges of white society or be a second-class citizen...
...Korean peninsula was under direct Japanese control. To this day, according to public opinion polls, South Koreans like the Japanese even less than they do their Communist rivals in North Korea. (The feeling is mutual: the 669,800 Koreans who live in Japan are generally treated as second-class citizens...
Although the number of women admitted to the College continues to rise--a record 43 percent of the incoming class is female--many women undergraduates say Harvard offers them only a second-class citizenship...