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Admitting women will not necessarily give those women access to the networking opportunities provided by final clubs. Secret societies and elite clubs institutionalize choices about who has the right appearance, who has the right parents, who attended the right school. Those outside the sphere of acceptance are locked out--unable to gain access to the old-boy network of business connections...
...platform pledged to scale down the bloated, Sandinista-controlled military, limit the sphere of government, reinvigorate respect for private property, proceed apace with privatization of Sandinista-nationalized corporations, decrease the influence of Sandinista unions and give those peasants who had been working on cooperative farms title to the land...
Because discrimination extends beyond economics into the sphere of social and cultural life, offering solutions to the problem can prove difficult for the labor economist. The complexity of the issue may even deter scholars from tackling problems of gender on the policy level...
...there was one sphere in which Bok's administrative apparatus proved especially controversial, it was his role in several highly-contested tenure decisions. Several times, Bok denied lifetime professorships to candidates popular with students and sometimes with the backing of their departments...
Such piecemeal "reform" has become the hallmark of Gorbachev's perestroika. In almost every sphere he has failed to be decisive or consistent in implementing reform plans. He has been unwilling to move fully into a free- market economy, preferring to tinker with the centralized planning machinery in hopes of making it more efficient. He has been willing to liberalize the political life of the country but not to allow any of its separatists to break away. He has alienated not only the separatists but also the traditionalists, who accuse him of "betrayal" for failing to completely carry through...