Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though willowy and beautiful, Bobbie Arnstein was one woman who had made it on brains in the sexist hierarchy of Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. From a receptionist's job, which she took in 1960 shortly after leaving high school, she rose to become Hefner's executive secretary for eleven years. As his alter ego and chief of staff, she saw to a diverse range of the head Playboy's needs, from matters of substance and budget right down to scheduling his private jet and arranging overtime for the butlers in the baronial 100-room Playboy...
...consciousness-raising group at a Y.M.C.A helped channel her interests from a dying political revolution to a rising feminist one. By accident, she says, she ran into Mark Rudd, a leader of the 1968 student strike at Columbia, somewhere in the Southwest and was repelled by his "sexist" attitudes...
Matina Horner took on the presidency two years ago with a glittering vision of Radcliffe as it might be, the best of both worlds--a women's school that gives its students protection, strength and room to blossom in this sexist world, but also a co-ed school, with its obvious social, emotional and educational advantages. Opponents of merger feel that it is necessary to have the protection Radcliffe affords, to have an advocate for women's rights and a focus to keep them from being isolated within the male university. Harvard has shown so little concern for women...
...indeed approved by the states, it will go into effect two years after ratification. The amendment will not repeal any law or invalidate any regulation already on the books. It will, however, provide a basis for challenging existing laws and sexist practices. Hence so-called protective labor legislation for women, such as state laws limiting working hours or the amount of weight a female worker can lift, may be broadened to extend to men or be dropped altogether. Alimony laws could be written in terms of marital contribution and ability to pay, rather than the sex of the spouse...
...specific discriminatory practices. "If three-fourths of the states are prepared to ratify the amendment," he argues, "it is hard to see why they must first admonish themselves to do justice before they do justice." The difference, he points out, between a constitutional amendment and writing laws that eliminate sexist practices "resembles that in medicine between a single broad-spectrum drug with uncertain and unwanted side effects and a selection of specific pills for specific ills...