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...labor force, they account for only 10% of the nation's more than 350,000 scientists. Furthermore, women in the sciences earn fewer doctorates than men, have more trouble winning tenured posts in universities, are paid less than males in the same field-the so-called "skirt differential"-and all too often find it almost impossible to reach the top rungs of their profession. The National Academy of Sciences, for instance, currently has only nine women among its more than 800 elected members. Of 278 Nobel Prizes in science, only six have been awarded to women (two to Marie...
...Billie Jean, sexist slights have often been compounded by tennis' traditional snootiness. In her first tournament, as a preteenager in Southern California, she was ordered out of a group picture because she was wearing shorts instead of a tennis dress. No one expects Robyn to wear a skirt while she is riding a horse, but her dressing facilities are inevitably second-rate; at Gulfstream Park, near Miami, she changes in the doctor's office...
...didn't have the grace of a faded star. His over madeup wife in a shiny silver coat handed out sheets and said. "My husband's running for Vice President." Meanwhile her husband was saying to the green-eyed McGovern girl that he'd be glad to "chase your skirt anytime, honey...
...York Magazine reporter Richard Reeves that doing so would "force me out of the race. "McGovern has been hammering away at Muskie's reticence, wondering who is on this list who might prove so embarassing to the Maine Senator. In a typical encounter last Sunday evening, Muskie tried to skirt the issue. In his closing remarks in a debate at the University of New Hampshire, Muskie said, "I disclosed my sources two years before any of the other candidates. When they didn't follow suit, I decided we needed a policy that would apply to all the candidates, including...
...provides contemporary color but gives no hint of its potentially controversial aspects; Scott mentions having thrown his "long-haired hippie son" out of the house but hardly seems to recognize in Diana Rigg a member of the same generation. He's more interested in the revelations of her short skirt than in its ideological connotations. There's another doctor--an old-fashioned slimy-capitalist type--who's set up a private practice for immense personal profit and continually refers his non-fee patients to it for private treatment. Near the end he gets his just deserts when...