Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This change in morality is most prominently approved by those in the upper reaches of achievement: professional men and women, the college-educated, the prosperous citizens of suburbia. They are joined by young people under 30 and, in many instances, by the blacks. The moral conservatives, those who still cling tightly to the old verities, are mainly to be found among those over 50 and in the lower-income, less-educated sectors, especially in small towns. In the matter of morality, there are virtually two Americas...
...women, young and old, professionals and laborers, whites and blacks, Christians and Jews, all agree by lopsided majorities that morality in the U.S. has declined over the past ten years. Nationwide, 67% of Harris' sampling of 1,600 representative Americans take that view, while only 11% believe that mora1 standards have risen. Those who feel that morality has improved point to increased concern for racial and social justice and to widespread revulsion against the war in Viet Nam. The majority that finds a decline in standards attributes the trend more than anything else to increased emphasis on sex, crime...
...certain circumstances by 59%, suicide by 12%, and ignoring a victim's cry for help-presumably to avoid the dangers of involvement-by 22%. On the other hand, Americans continue to favor capital punishment, 48% to 38%; the figure is 58% among men but falls to 40% among women...
...think that unmarried women have as much right to sexual fulfillment as unmarried men. Women remain more attached to the double standard than men. While 59% of the men interviewed thought that unmarried women should be as free sexually as bachelors, only 38% of the women agreed...
...consider women who use four-letter words to be immoral...