Word: unisex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them to change their curriculums in some way that corresponds more or less to the Core Curriculum. But one of the great advantages of our system of higher education is its diversity. There are many different kinds of colleges and universities and many different kinds of schools, large, small, unisex, coeducational, religious-affiliated, non-religious affiliated. It would be a great shame if any one conception of undergraduate education, or any one curriculum, became dominant--we would lose one of the advantages that we have. So whereas there may be some impact on some institutions, I would very much doubt...
Would the Equal Rights Amendment mean instant equality or a chaos of broken families and unisex lavatories...
...state have any unisex toilets appeared in public places as a result of the ERA. "I lived in Florida before moving to Hawaii, and the misconceptions over ERA were incredible," says Alice Ball, president of the Oahu YWCA. "I wish I could bring those people over to Hawaii to see how well it's working. ERA doesn't solve everything, but it has cleared out some of the undergrowth...
...women. Their uneasy presence, plus coed dormitories and steadily changing sexual mores, have taken some of the old frenzy out of carnival. This is not to say that Dartmouth has now achieved a kind of truce in the ancient battle of the sexes, that easy friendliness and naturalness that unisex advocates always confidently predict. Dartmouth women feel alternately belittled and beleaguered. Says one young woman, class of '79: "You have to learn in the first few weeks of being here how to say no without feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also...
...south remains relatively more prosperous. Women there still wear the brightly colored ao dai, in contrast to the unisex black pants and white shirt commonly worn in the north. Food is somewhat more available but less affordable, since the inflation rate exceeds 100% a year. In general, the economy of the south has suffered from Hanoi's abolition last year of "bourgeois trade" and the introduction of a uniform currency throughout the country. Southern industry is currently running at 40% of capacity. About one-fifth of the 3 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are unemployed. Conceding...