Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread women around would omit the internal force of Radcliffe," said Robert Ferguson. Senior Tutor at Dunster House. "We don't want to be distributed around for the appreciation of the Harvard men," one woman said...
...inadequate to create comfortable coed communities. Women held mass meetings last spring to argue for acceptable ratios in the Harvard Houses. Their requests were met: in applying to the Harvard Houses, women were allowed to choose among them on the basis of maximum ratios of men to women. To spread women thinly among all Harvard Houses would break the tacit promise of acceptable ratios made to them last spring...
...Radcliffe team, fully maximizing its limited personel, was hurt by the absence of Mary Beth Tomaselli, who decided not to make the trip. Tomaselli was sorely missed on the relay team. Furthermore, with only five team members making the trip Radcliffe entrants were spread very thinly throughout the competition, hurting each individual's performance...
...decade ago women accounted for just 6% of the nation's 260,000 doctors; today they are 7.6% of the 345,000 practitioners. Nor are women spread evenly within the profession. They represent only 1% of the general surgeons, who are among the biggest medical earners, and 26% of the nation's public health physicians, whose income is modest by comparison with most doctors...
Women's studies, the systematic analysis of women's role in history and culture, are surprisingly new. The program at San Diego State, which began in 1970 with five teachers and ten courses, was the first in the country. Today women's studies have spread to scores of campuses and include more than 600 courses. One out of every ten students is a male, and a few sympathetic men have even risked ridicule to teach such courses...