Word: womanizing
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...last year. Still, the metro area has seen big job losses from major employers, including the computer maker Dell and semiconductor manufacturers like Freescale and Advanced Micro Devices. It's not hard to find the desperate stories here that you find throughout the rest of the country: the woman laid off from book publishing two years ago who hasn't been able to find a permanent job since; the interior decorator who used to have a six-figure salary and now sells furniture for $30,000 a year...
...version of Smart Women, Foolish Choices. It seems out of character, and the tone is not that of a cautionary tale. I worry that he sees Greenberg as a modern, ennui-filled love story and believes, like Florence, that Greenberg can be saved by the love of a good woman. Not a chance...
...system. Last week, during a press conference on insurance-company abuses, Democrats introduced 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, whose 27-year-old mother died of pulmonary hypertension after she lost her job and health insurance. Days later, Obama began a health care speech with the story of an Ohio woman who lost her insurance coverage and is in the hospital with leukemia. Pelosi is in the midst of a week of press conferences with children, seniors, college students and other vulnerable groups that she says will gain from health reform...
...boys in school, especially around math and science. Reviving Ophelia, about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women to run for Congress. So you had this feminist ferment in the early- and mid-1990s that gave rise to what was the girl-power movement...
...those images of powerful woman can, in themselves, be dangerous. Why? The media have really overrepresented how far women have come. We don't have a range of images of women, some of whom are working-class or single mothers or struggling. The media continue to [suggest] that full equality for women is a done deal. It makes it seem like feminist politics is no longer necessary. And that's so not true. Have women come a long way? Sure we have. But is there a lot more that needs to be done...