Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage two fashion shows there in March. When Teng went to Japan his wife and the wives of four other officials on the trip were turned out in trimly cut silk jackets and pants, an elegant change from the monochrome Mao suits that were for years the Chinese woman's revolutionary uniform...
Trapnell did not give up. Last May a woman named Barbara Oswald tried to rescue him from the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill. She commandeered a St. Louis helicopter at gunpoint, but the pilot seized her gun and killed her. Oswald's daughter Robin, 17, was shattered. She dropped out of high school but continued corresponding with Trapnell, whom a friend said she regarded as "a father figure." Last week Robin Oswald boarded TWA Flight 541 in St. Louis, then announced that she was carrying three sticks of dynamite and took over the airliner. With 87 passengers aboard...
Sommers estimates that there are at least 3 million displaced homemakers, though nobody knows for sure. For practical purposes, a displaced homemaker is a person from 35 to 64, overwhelmingly likely to be a woman, who has been caring for family members and has lost the means of support through divorce, separation, death or some other calamity like the disabling of a spouse. She either has not held a job for a long time or has never worked outside the home...
...year in support. Only 14% of divorce settlements include any alimony, and only 44% award child support-but less than half of either is paid regularly. Noting that working women earn on the average only 57% of men's wages, Tish Sommers says: "When you are a woman on your own, you are poor...
...been changed," says Stewart. "When they find that the things they have treasured all their lives, helping their husbands achieve and raising children, are considered worthless, they suffer a terrible identity crisis." The first step toward economic self-sufficiency is to rebuild devastated selfesteem. "We have to sell the woman both to herself and to the community," says Sommers...