Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...feminists are torn. Many are former antiwar activists and oppose a peacetime registration and draft of any sort; at the same time, they insist on equal rights and duties for women. Said Iris Mitgang, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "I feel tested to the fullest as a feminist when asked whether women should serve. It would be inconsistent to say that my daughter should not register if my son must. And every step of my background leads me to oppose the draft." Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight...
...other universities, and the corporate world as the creator of guidelines for non-discriminatory labor practices known as the Sullivan Principles. Endorsed by 135 of the 300 U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa, the principles guarantee for black South Africans desegregation in all company facilities, fair employment practices, equal pay, the initiation of training programs to prepare blacks for supervisory and administrative jobs, an increased number of blacks in management, and improvement of the quality of employees' housing, transportation, education, recreation and health facilities. Sullivan says the principles are designed, at the very least, to start corporations thinking...
...whether the registration would include women. The subject is controversial, and especially explosive in an election year. Says a top Defense official: "Not only is the question not decided, it is wildly in flux." The best guess is that Carter will stick to his guns on equal rights and ask for the registration of women as well...
While many judges cling to this "unfitness" test, things are changing. The emergence of job-holding mothers (59% of women 18 to 64 now work) has eliminated a leading legal basis for favoring the exwife. Fathers, encouraged by the new emphasis on equal rights, are increasingly inclined to put up a fight. Though his divorce occurred in 1970, Dancer Edward Villella has sued to retrieve custody of his son Roddy, now 10. (Quipped his exwife, former Dancer Janet Greschler Villella: "He probably saw Kramer vs. Kramer...
Some advocates of divorce-law change believe that only joint custody makes sense. Says Garry Brown, former head of Equal Rights for Fathers of New York State: "I don't care how inadequate a parent is, a kid is entitled to his two loving parents." Brown favors a system under which the child lives with one parent, while the other has unlimited visitation rights and a full voice in decisions involving the child's rearing. On Jan. 1, California became the fourth state (after Oregon, Iowa and Wisconsin) to adopt a statute specifically providing the option of joint...