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Women may have comparatively less trouble than men in finding jobs in the New Economy because they have traditionally specialized in such service fields as nursing and secretarial work. The unemployment rate among adult women is now 8.4%, in contrast with 9.8% for adult men. Since service jobs tend to be low paying, however, women earn only 65% of what men do. In the technical professions that look most lucrative for the future, women have lagged badly but are starting to catch up. Women earn about 23% of the master's degrees granted in computer science, up from...
These epithets tend to cancel one another out, as they usually do and one's better impulse is not to get into the mud with these guys. But I have watched this band of movement-wrecking, non-sense-spouting dictators disrupt the left at Harvard for four years now, and I know how destructive their infantile disorder...
...leaders of the opposition and even most of the demonstrators, was that history was not repeating itself. Beyond the folklore of protest, the political realities of 1983 bear little resemblance to those of 1968. Above all, this time militant students lack the support of the unions and workers, who tend to regard them as part of the privileged bourgeois elite. Alain Krivine, one of the leaders of the 1968 uprising and now head of a Trotskyite splinter party, recalled that "we had 60,000 to 70,000 students in the streets." In the past three weeks, fewer than...
...That's one of the problems with working in a lab like this-you tend to develop a sleep disorder yourself.' Margaret A. McMahon
...think it's appropriate at all. The student panel was set up to be a jury of peers with incidents that tend to come up in daily university life," said former Undergraduate Assembly chairman Liz Cooper, who organized a support rally following the announcement of the gang rape allegations...