Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...discrimination forbidden by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Although the ban on sex discrimination was added to that law as a wry joke by Southern Congressmen opposing civil rights for blacks, complaints involving women now make up nearly one-quarter of those brought to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Self-Reliance. In deciding the case, the U.S. district court in Toledo could hold that the federal statute overrules the state law. But it could also take up the question of whether "female-protective" laws violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection to "any person" or its insistence on due process for all. For years, lower courts have upheld separate treatment for women, often citing a 1908 Supreme Court decision that approved different standards for the sexes because of differences "in structure of body, amount of physical strength [and] in self-reliance." In a new case...
...male operators and bars to take on female bartenders, the EEOC has ruled that actresses can still monopolize female roles-and presumably, jobs as topless dancers. Eventually, says University of New Mexico Law Professor Leo Kanowitz, the courts may have to decide such issues as whether, if women have equal rights, they also have equal liability to be drafted...
...children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that the other night I saw Mickey Mouse on television, and I'm here to ask for equal time." Agnew is getting plenty of equal time: he wrote a piece recently for the New York Times editorial page, and this fall he may fill in for Paul Harvey on the conservative commentator's radio show...
...pity. Beyond the cyclamatic publicity and the pain of her private life, Andrews, 34, is one of the last of the great English music-hallmarks. She can sing effortlessly, make a mug or a moue with equal facility, throw away a line and reel it back in with the best-when she is given half a chance. Her latest, Darling Lili, is only a quarter of a chance...