Word: acte
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...punched, it was somebody's head," says Mackey. "That's just the way I felt." Along with the United Auto Workers, which represents many of Johnson Controls' employees, she is one of eight workers bringing suit against the company. They charge that its policy violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars employment discrimination on the basis of sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions unless the practice in question directly relates to the worker's ability...
...their souls by the Industrial Revolution. At these so-called warrior weekends, participants wrestle, beat drums and hold workshops on everything from ecology to divorce and incest. They embrace, and yes, they do cry and confide things they would never dream of saying to their wives and girlfriends. They act out emotions in a safe haven where no one will laugh at them...
...Jung Institute in Chicago. "Men must also feel good about being male." Men would do well, in fact, to invite women into their lives to participate in these changes. It's no fun to face them alone. But if women can't or won't, men must act on their own and damn the torpedoes. No pain, no gain...
Though it came too late for most boomers, the U.S. government gave a boost to women's athletics with the 1972 Title IX Amendment, which prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. The act helped encourage girls to go into sports by providing college scholarships and spurring the organization of girls' athletic teams. Since 1975, the number of girls' track-and-field competitors has grown sixfold. By 1989 there were 130,000 women competing in collegiate sports throughout the U.S., in contrast...
...women's campaigns, money remains as serious a problem as sexism. "There is no money in women's issues," says Schroeder. "There isn't one PAC organized around the Women's Health Equity Act." Raising money, since women have less experience at it, is also harder. Says former Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Maureen Reagan, an indefatigable fund raiser: "Women still feel they ought to say thank you for their paychecks, so it's hard to get them in the habit of making campaign contributions and doing it for more than spare change." Nonetheless, fund-raising operations -- notably EMILY...