Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Department of Education found that "none of those [admissions officers] interviewed could think of, or remember a single case in which an applicant's Asian-American ethnicity was cited as the `tip' which resulted in an applicant being admitted over a substantially equal white counterpart...
...decade is off to a fast start. In 1990 women entered races in record numbers, even exceeding the rush of 1972, when Senate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment gave women the incentive to run. This year 11 were candidates for Governor, 87 for Congress, eight for the Senate, and hundreds more for local office. Compare that with the paucity of female officeholders before Election Day: three women Governors (in Vermont, Nebraska and Arizona), 28 of the 435 Representatives in the House and just two of 100 Senators...
...over the past 25 years the cost of housing has jumped 56% and college tuitions have rocketed 87.9% in real dollars. Joseph Minarik, executive director of the congressional Joint Economic Committee estimates that the typical 30-year-old man buying a median-priced home in 1973 incurred carrying costs equal to 21% of his income. By 1987 this had risen to 40%. For the first time since World War II, home ownership among young families is declining. Complains Karen, a 26-year-old housewife in the Chicago area: "You either buy a home, both of you work and your kids...
...that by then men and women will have become indistinguishable, their quirks and cares and concerns interchangeable. Rather, the struggles of the last decades of the 20th century will have brought about the freedom and flexibility that have always been the goals of social reform. Issues like equal pay, child care, abortion, rape and domestic violence will no longer be cast as "women's issues." They will be viewed as economic issues, family issues, ethical issues, of equal resonance to men and women. A woman heading a huge corporation will not make headlines by virtue of her gender. Half...
...success of the women's movement is the ease with which it is taken for granted. Few daughters remember the barriers their mothers faced when applying for scholarships, jobs and loans -- even for a divorce. Today's young adults dismiss old gender stereotypes and limitations. They expect equal opportunities but want more than mere equality. It is their dream that they will be the ones to strike a healthy balance at last between their public and private lives: between the lure of fame and glory, and a love of home and hearth...