Word: wifely
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...M.R.S." was more important). As for aspirations, well, they were limited. When more than 13,000 female college graduates were asked, in the early '60s, how they defined success for themselves, the two most common answers were to be the mother of several accomplished children and to be the wife of a prominent man. In 1960, three years before Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, 34.8% of women were in the work force, in contrast to 57.8% today. The number of female lawyers and judges has climbed from 7,500 to 180,000 today, female doctors from...
...Labor unions are also playing a role in these struggles. In any given month in cities around the country, seminars, workshops and conventions assemble to discuss these same concerns. "This is not the organized women's movement," says Hillary Clinton, a partner in a Little Rock law firm and wife of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. "It is not top down. It is bottom up." The emphasis is on practical solutions, not rhetoric. Men are often included, and the tone is less confrontational. "Who wants to walk around with clenched fists all the time?" Clinton asks...
...soon," he says, "but a jump of 10% in a national sample is a big change." Other studies have shown a growing role for men in caring for children. For 18% of dual-paycheck couples who work separate shifts, the father is the primary child-care provider during the wife's working hours. The more "women's work" men perform, the more respectable that work becomes and the less men take women for granted. "If men start taking care of children, the job will become more valuable," insists Gloria Steinem...
...even hard-liners were startled last week when the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists opened an investigation of four practitioners -- a procedure that could end in revoking their right to practice -- because of interviews they gave the Boston Globe about the emotional problems of Kitty Dukakis, wife of Governor Michael Dukakis. An acknowledged recovering alcoholic and amphetamine addict, she was hospitalized Nov. 5 after drinking rubbing alcohol...
...Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The psychologists also said he too needed therapy to help his wife. One even suggested that Dukakis resign his office (his term runs through 1990) to aid his wife's recovery. After the board acted, some of the psychologists said they had been misquoted or their remarks had been taken out of context, which the Globe denies...