Word: womens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many feminists believe men will resist these changes. "It means more competition at work and more housework at home," says Patricia Ireland of NOW. Others argue that men will see benefits for themselves. "It's women's demands that are making the workplace more livable," says Warren Farrell, a self-proclaimed "male feminist" and author of Why Men Are the Way They Are. "Companies did not have to be flexible in the past because men were their slaves...
...national sample is a big change." Other studies have shown a growing role for men in caring for children. For 18% of dual-paycheck couples who work separate shifts, the father is the primary child-care provider during the wife's working hours. The more "women's work" men perform, the more respectable that work becomes and the less men take women for granted. "If men start taking care of children, the job will become more valuable," insists Gloria Steinem...
...growing family (she and her husband Hugh Osborn, a media consultant, have two children, Nathaniel, 3, and Madeleine, 11 months). "I wondered whether the movement did us a disservice by not preparing us for how difficult it would be," she says. "I'm part of a generation of women who grew up with the opportunities created by the feminist movement, but who find it difficult to cope in a society whose institutions and values have not yet adjusted to women's new roles...
Writing the cover story cleared up much of Wallis' uncertainty about feminism. Examining outdated images of women in old ads and studying reports from correspondents Scott Brown, Melissa Ludtke and Martha Smilgis proved how far women have come. Now, she says, "I have no problem saying, 'Yes, I am a feminist...
...unseat Senator Claiborne Pell, and Lynn Martin of Illinois, who plans to run for the Senate. Then, as he flew back to Washington, he vetoed the budget bill for the District of Columbia because it contained a provision that would use city funds to pay for abortions for poor women. It was Bush's fourth abortion-related veto this year...