Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislators has virtually doubled since 1971, to 685. There are 90 women mayors of American cities that have populations of more than 10,000. Nearly half-six of 13 members-of the Minneapolis city council is now female. In tiny Flemington, Ga., every municipal office is held by a woman. Says Betty Friedan: "Women have gained enormously over the last 15 years. We have broken through the barriers, and it is more than just tokenism...
...equal pay for equal work: Female high school teachers earn only 81% as much as their male peers, and female scientists receive 76% as much. Of the 301 people appointed to major jobs by President Carter, only 13% are women. There are only 17 women in Congress, and no woman has ever sat on the U.S. Supreme Court...
...activists can congratulate themselves for having accomplished much in a surprisingly short time. Says Joanne Alter, a Chicago Sanitary District commissioner: "Sure, we have a long way to go. But remember, the women's movement is very young. Nine years ago, when I would talk about a woman on the Supreme Court, people would look at me as if I were crazy." No longer. Sums up Pam Faust, executive director of the California State Commission on the Status of Women: "The changes are valid and profound. Whether or not you're for the women's movement...
...Force ruling reflects a progressivism that is not shared by the older services. Spokesmen at both the Army and Navy academies insist they have no intention of changing their policies. They argue that they already guarantee equality, if not exactly protection, by requiring anyone, man or woman, to resign if he or she is responsible for a pregnancy. They add that the issue is, well, academic. Since the three service academies first admitted women in early 1976, only one woman has resigned-from the Air Force Academy-because she was expecting a baby. Two men quit the Naval Academy this...
...Force ruling did not totally solve a pregnant cadet's problems. The woman still has to go away-on her "excess leave"-for an abortion. And while a cadet may have her baby if she chooses, she cannot marry until she has graduated. Motherhood, said the Air Force, is not sufficient cause to amend the traditional ban on marriage in all the service academies. Explained one Pentagon lawyer, perhaps too hastily: pregnancy is temporary but marriage is permanent...