Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past ten years women have lost 50 seats in state legislatures. Margaret Chase Smith is the lone woman in the U.S. Senate, and there are only ten Congresswornen, compared with...
...women held more than a third of the faculty positions in colleges and universities. By the 1960s, that ratio had dropped to less than a fourth. The proportion of women will probably dwindle even further as the new flood of Ph.D.s enters the teaching market. In the 1920s women received 15% of the nation's doctorates. The percentage is now down...
...Median wages and salaries of fully employed men were $4,713 in 1957, as compared with $3,008 for women. In 1968, men's income had risen to about $7,800, or 65%, while women's had gone up to $4,550, or 51%. The gap is widening...
...thousands of American women, the nation's capital became its most enlightened city last week. Suddenly, Washington, D.C., found itself with no law whatever to prevent doctors from performing abortions...
...Vuitch estimates that more than 20,000 abortions a year are performed in the Washington area, and that only about 25% of them are done in hospitals. Many of the illegal abortions are performed on poor women by unlicensed practitioners under less than sanitary conditions. While the capital's private hospitals interpreted the old statute relatively freely to permit therapeutic abortions, the public institution-D.C. General Hospital-which mainly serves the poor, did very few such operations...