Word: stigmas
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...always been the greatest motivating factor for Radcliffe women applying to medical school and according to a study on women in medicine by Phoebe A. Williams research associate at the Radcliffe Institute Williams attributes this recent jump in Radcliffe pre medical studies to a break-down of the stigma attached to women doctors, showing medical school to be a viable option...
...stigma. As Coffin explains, "The danger of premarital sex while it was verboten was that it covered up a multitude of gaps. A girl had to believe she was in love because, she told herself, she wouldn't otherwise go to bed. As a result, the real relationship never got fully explored...
Despite a recent crackdown by the Saigon government, neither desertion nor draft evasion carries any great stigma among most South Vietnamese, who are weary of a war that has gone on for 25 years. One reason is that family allegiance has traditionally been recognized as the highest loyalty, greater even than that due to one's country. Men like Tran Van Hai are protected by a closely knit community that admires their struggle to avoid military service. Another reason is the pervasive corruption that permits all but the poor to buy their way out of army duty...
...play," the Sidels write. Family, neighbors and fellow workers are expected to take an interest in every discharged patient and help him make the transition from hospital to home. As a result, the country seems to have eliminated most of the social consequences of mental illness. There is little stigma attached to it, and the patient does not lose his place in society. For one thing, he escapes the unemployment problems that plague recovered mental patients in the West. He is paid even while he is ill, and either gets his old job back or is given a similar...
...commonplace everywhere. That may be the best way to describe Boston's newest newspaper. But so far, the more has not coalesced into the better. The Record and Herald has a long way to go before it endears itself to its readers, and is able to shirk the stigma of being the remnant of two familiar, and exquisitely distinct. newspapers...