Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonprofessional women, poor women, minority women feel their needs and values have been largely ignored by the organized women's movement, which grew out of white, middle-class women's discontent. Most women of color say their primary concerns -- access to education, health care and safe neighborhoods for their children -- were not priorities for the women's movement. As for getting out into the workplace, well, poor women have always been there, mopping floors, slinging hash, raising other people's children. "I never saw the feminist movement as liberating me from the home," says L. Clarissa Chandler, a black social...
Last spring, that new group--called Stop With-holding Access Today (SWAT)--was added as a co-complainant in the MCAD case, along with Schkolnick, who was then studying in Cairo for a year...
Finally, we need to use the American system of justice to actually see that justice is done. We must provide equal access to the courts for rich and poor alike. We must reverse the Reagan-era tendency to wink at discrimination and abuses of power...
This is really a corollary to providing equal opportunity. The American myth of the level playing field can never become reality as long as children in Roxbury and rural Mississippi do not have the same access to education as children in Greenwich...
Under the new plan, vehicular access to therest of the Yard will normally be restricted, sopackages heading for other Yard buildings will bedelivered only by hand, Smith said...