Word: 20th
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...20th century, the most successful female dynast has been Indira Gandhi of India, daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Over a span of 16 years, Gandhi proved herself the most formidable Prime Minister India has ever had, masterly melding the charisma of her family with the subcontinent's rich religious images of motherhood and successfully passing her office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule...
...roughly half the world's population, women would hardly seem to need to struggle for attention. Yet struggle is precisely what they have been doing in the final decades of the 20th century. Their endeavors deserve no less a word than revolution -- in expectations, accomplishments, self-realization and relationships with men. It is a revolution that, though far from complete, promises over time to bring about changes as profound for men and women as any that have occurred in Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union in the past year...
...special issue devoted to women will seem about as appropriate as a special issue on tall people. This is not to say that by then men and women will have become indistinguishable, their quirks and cares and concerns interchangeable. Rather, the struggles of the last decades of the 20th century will have brought about the freedom and flexibility that have always been the goals of social reform. Issues like equal pay, child care, abortion, rape and domestic violence will no longer be cast as "women's issues." They will be viewed as economic issues, family issues, ethical issues, of equal...
...table, but fathers were responsible for the child's intellectual and moral upbringing. The majority of women have worked throughout U.S. history, first in the home, then in the shop and factory. With wave after wave of cheap immigrant labor available during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even middle-class families had nannies. Nor is there anything new about day-care centers. In the 1820s 40% of all three-year-olds in Massachusetts were going to "infant schools," though such institutions fell out of favor within a decade...
...similarities end there. When the Crimson (9-4-1 overall, 4-0-1 Ivy), ranked 20th in the nation, steps onto Cumnock Field at 2 p.m. today, they will be facing a vastly inferior Brown squad...