Word: enough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have women been excluded from so many studies? In the case of heart disease, some researchers argue that it is too difficult to find enough subjects with the condition, since it develops later in women. Also, the hormone changes of the menstrual cycle are thought to complicate research, raising costs. Perhaps most important, doctors are worried that if women enrolled in a clinical trial became pregnant, experimental drugs could endanger the fetus...
Leifer has a wide range of sauciness and satire. Her routines prove that contemporary female comics are secure enough to lampoon other women, especially fast-track yuppettes: "Hi! I just had a baby an hour ago, and I'm back at work already. And while I was delivering, I took a seminar on tax- shelter options...
...Magnuson resents being hemmed in by critical preconceptions. She is supple enough to do a routine about a biker chick at the Red-Neckorama, or to perform a mock-heroic ballet to the theme of the NBC Nightly News. But versatility has not brought happiness: "PEOPLE magazine accuses me of being too hip and arty." On the other hand, recalling her 1987 special on cable TV, she says, "The Village Voice condemns me for selling out to Cinemax, as if Cinemax were run by Jesse Helms...
...didn't claim that women were morally superior. But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering. We imagined women storming male strongholds and, once inside, becoming change agents, role models, whistle-blowers. The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat...
...figure out what we intend to do when we get inside. Equality with men is a fine ambition, and I'll fight for any woman's right to do any foolish or benighted thing that men are paid and honored for. But ultimately, assimilation is just not good enough. As one vintage feminist T shirt used to say, IF YOU THINK EQUALITY IS THE GOAL . . . YOUR STANDARDS...