Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...analyst with the investment firm Morgan Stanley. The automaker's latest downsizing, which will eliminate an estimated 20,000 jobs, drew no protest from the United Auto Workers. One reason is that the U.A.W.'s new contract with GM allows many workers who lose their jobs to get severance equal to as much as three years...
...Joint Chiefs, Admiral William Crowe, to pick an officer from the Pentagon's top echelon to be his successor, Cheney passed over 15 more senior generals. He recommended Powell, the first black and, at 52, the youngest officer ever to serve in the post. Powell may be Cheney's equal as a political insider in Washington; many believe he could become the first African American to be nominated for Vice President by either major party. And while both men have a quick smile and ready wit, they hold the reins tightly inside their own operations...
...California. "I'm not willing to have children and put them in day care. I've baby-sat for years and taken kids to day-care centers. They just hang on my legs and cry. I can't do that." Other women claim to be searching for the perfect equal-opportunity mate. Melissa Zipnick, 26, a kindergarten teacher in Los Angeles, saw her own working mom wear herself out "catering" to her father and brother. "I intend to be married to someone who will share all the responsibilities," she vows...
More ironic, in the field of crime, women are achieving a dubious sort of equality with men. Mandatory minimum-sentencing laws passed in the late 1970s and early '80s have forced judges to hand out long sentences to women. Says Carole Laughton, an inmate of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, N.J.: "With equal opportunity and all that,we're getting longer time. It has hurt...
Once women are locked up, however, they swiftly find they are no longer equal. Until recently, there were so few women in prison that little attention was paid to their special needs. Even now, prison authorities argue that the number of females is so small, relative to males, that there are no "economies of scale" in designing special programs for them. Female prisoners are thus confined in a system primarily designed, built...