Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopkins' suit dramatizes the dilemma faced by many professional women who attempt to walk the narrow line between appearing serious and seeming overly severe. "Men in fields that have long been dominated by males tend to expect women to act both feminine and businesslike," says Herma Hill Kay, a sex- discrimination expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "I think they don't realize they're sending out conflicting messages...
Eventually, Hopkins left the firm and brought suit, contending that the promotion process had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits job discrimination. Pointing to the terms used to describe her in the written evaluations, she argued that she was a victim of sexual stereotyping by male partners who expected women to be sweet and conciliatory and who bridled at any departure from that image. "To be difficult to work with is somewhat in the eye of the beholder," she says. "We had difficult jobs...
Federal regulators are bound to fight the defection in order to discourage other healthy S and Ls from attempting to follow suit. A mass desertion could bankrupt the FSLIC fund and saddle taxpayers with the expected $50 billion to $100 billion bill for rescuing the savings industry...
...issue was Hallmark's Personal Touch series, a two-year-old line of 83 cards that feature long, syrupy poems adorned by picturesque natural landscapes. In their $100 million suit, the Schutzes contended that the Hallmark products were rip-offs of cards and posters they had been producing since the early 1970s. In May a U.S. appeals court agreed. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and now Hallmark has agreed to stop publishing the Personal Touch cards, buy back existing cards in the line from some 21,000 Hallmark outlets in the U.S. and pay the Schutzes...
...films show Lange playing by these implicit rules while bending them to suit. In Far North, she is Kate, a Manhattan careerist come home to Minnesota. Kate is a little addled, but less so than most of her relatives, and she possesses a loyalty to the whims of her dotty dad that is fierce enough to pass for independence. In Everybody's All-American she is Babs Rogers Grey, Louisiana U.'s Magnolia Queen of 1956, who blossoms into a principled businesswoman even as her marriage to a college football star withers like a corsage she forgot to press into...