Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigate," cried Molly Piontkowski, a diminutive Polish woman, one of 13 angry witnesses who appeared before the committee. "You don't do a damn thing." Asked by Javits if she knew of "people actually suffering from hunger," she replied: "Are you kiddin'? Are you kiddin'? You can walk down the street in east Los Angeles and seven families out of ten on a block are barely existing." Said Catherine Jermany, a huge black woman who heads an organization known as the Los Angeles County Welfare Rights Organization: "I'm tired of this jive! This whole welfare...
Measure of Promise. "Much of the terror that once gripped women whose husbands were unfaithful to them stemmed from the threat it posed to their economic security," Dr. Bernard said. "Just a few years ago, I believed that a woman could not be casual about her own extramarital relations. Now a new kind of woman is emerging who can accept the sex-as-fun point of view without conflict." Although not necessarily endorsing the idea, she observed that married couples have become increasingly willing to accept a new kind of marriage that preserves "permanence at the expense of exclusivity...
...Institute, though, benefits the Scholars more significantly just by choosing them. To become a Scholar means to be recognized as a talented woman. This recognition is a key to new associations, and eventually to career openings. (Since this recognition is so valuable, it seems very important that the Institute choose as Scholars women who are as yet "un recognized.") But most of all, the recognition gives the women the confidence that encourages them to keep taking risks...
...instance, if a married woman has to help support children, it might seem extravagant to give up a job to try to make movies, since she would not know whether or not she would be successful. But the Institute, by choosing her as a Scholar to make movies for a year, not only boosts her financially, but proves to her and to the world that it things she's doing something worthwhile. Also, given the year for her projects, she will presumably complete a movie within that time, and have tangible proof of her talent...
...Guidance Laboratory serves women with these problems by suggesting job opportunities and ways of adjusting family life to jobs. Information from the Guidance Laboratory is shuttled to the researchers who are carrying on numerous studies through special grants on "the woman in America." They're trying to answer questions like: How many American women are working today and for what reason? What effect does a woman's having a career have on family life? What kind of women become highly motivated and why? Some studies currently underway are: woman's role (a survey of married women in suburban Boston); changes...