Word: woman
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JUANITA KREPS, who will turn 58 next week, is the first economist as well as the first woman to be Secretary of Commerce. She worked up the academic ladder to become a Duke University vice president, and has held a long list of corporation and foundation directorships...
...Kreps completed her undergraduate studies at Kentucky's Berea College, earned a doctorate in economics at Duke, and has specialized in the problems of working women and the aged. Married (to an economist) and the mother of three, she says that the "big problem in being a professional woman with a family is that you simply have less time for the profession." Kreps finds enough time to be in the forefront of the drive to boost U.S. exports. Except in the rarest cases, she opposes the policy of withholding high-technology American exports from countries that flout the Administration...
...phones now say, "National Commission for Employment Policy," though Sawhill has not yet been able to make an official change from the rather sexist old name). A native of Washington, D.C., Sawhill received her economics doctorate from New York University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late '60s, she has moved from one federal agency to another. Married to John Sawhill, onetime energy czar under President Nixon and now president of her alma mater, N.Y.U...
Though as a woman she had to overcome prejudice in the past, Sawhill says, "All that is over now. In fact, discrimination today is probably in my favor." A chief concern since she took office in 1977 has been how to achieve price stability with full employment. "Ideologically I'm middle-of-the-road," she says. "There is no way to solve all problems through Government intervention...
...remaining subplot they make a perfect match. Smith gives her best screen performance ever in the role of a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who arrives in Beverly Hills for Oscar night. Alternately buoyant and defeated, youthful and aging, she transforms a potentially campy character into a woman of great complexity and beauty. As her loving husband, an antiques dealer who prefers sex with men, Caine sets off Smith's brittle wit with soothing tenderness. Together these actors prove that a marriage of convenience can be a dynamic emotional affair. They also demonstrate that Simon, when he puts...