Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Monk made a clutch third-down catch in overtime. Chip Lohmiller hit the field goal to win the game. The Redskins were winners again...
Those differing values inform the way women approach ethical dilemmas, argues Gilligan, who oversees Harvard's Project on the Psychology of Women and the Development of Girls. On same-sex teams in grade-school sports, she notes, when a boy is injured he is removed from the field and the game continues. Among girls, when a teammate is hurt the game stops...
...boost to women's athletics with the 1972 Title IX Amendment, which prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. The act helped encourage girls to go into sports by providing college scholarships and spurring the organization of girls' athletic teams. Since 1975, the number of girls' track-and-field competitors has grown sixfold. By 1989 there were 130,000 women competing in collegiate sports throughout the U.S., in contrast...
...worrying over the young, the aged, the sick and the environment. Surveys show that women are perceived to be better than men on these issues, as well as to have higher ethical standards and greater honesty. "Our stereotype," says Democratic Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, "is finally in." Pollster Mervin Field goes further, predicting that the 1990s will be the "decade of women in politics...
...explosion of office seekers in California may have been due, in part, to the state's low threshold for boredom. "A woman candidate is automatically more interesting," says William Schneider, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "a flash of fuchsia in a sea of gray." Pollster Field says when people sense that "politically, things are going to hell in a hand basket," a woman candidate becomes more appealing: "By not being part of the problem, she comes across as part of the solution...