Word: social
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...Women's Studies is to initiate controversy and change, forcing the reexamination of constraining social structures that have traditionally blocked women from self-expression. Crusades to give Hurricanes Deborah and Jean men's names--David and Jason--invite satire. But the principle behind the initiatives is not ludicrous. Today, neither protesting discriminatory treatment of women in the job market, nor exploring the proliferations of "God the Father" and other established symbols in Western society, is much of a joke...
...first three months of pregnancy. Nearly one of every five babies born to adolescent mothers suffers from low birth weight. Amid growing concern about teen pregnancy, Edelman last week presided over the C.D.F.'s third annual Pregnancy Prevention Conference, which drew more than 2,000 religious leaders, social and health workers and community organizers to Washington...
That approach has sustained a lifelong struggle for social change. In her senior year at all-black Spelman College in Atlanta, Edelman became active in the 1960s civil rights movement. While volunteering in the local office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she became aware that there were no attorneys to represent poor blacks. She went off to Yale Law School, then became the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. As a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she met her husband Peter, a fellow attorney and an adviser...
Even while the Reagan Administration was trimming social spending, Edelman managed to score some victories. Last year nine federal programs known as the "children's initiative" received a $500 million increase in its $36 billion budget for families and children's health care, nutrition and early education. Meanwhile, under prodding from Edelman, Medicaid coverage for expectant mothers and their children was boosted in 1984, and last year Congress gave states the option of expanding Medicaid eligibility...
...better now than it used to be. In the late 1970s the vestibule was completely redone, and some "really raunchy linoleum was taken up, and the nice stone floor uncovered." Young says that he would like to do more. "The Union is all the freshmen have for formal social space and we'd always like to have more money...