Word: genderization
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...Gender Gap? When it came to the "woman factor," the patterns were just as difficult to discern. This was supposed to be the year that women candidates would pour into office in record numbers. More women were running for top posts than ever before: eight each for the U.S. Senate and governorships, 67 for the House of Representatives. With few exceptions these candidates were experienced politicians who had worked their way up through the system and established networks of support that might carry them into high office at last...
...Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, the veteran chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But in Oregon Barbara Roberts used a breezy style and support for abortion rights to stage a come- from-behind victory over an opponent who spent almost twice as much money. There was still a gender gap: women turned out heavily for Richards in Texas and Feinstein in California. But one result of the coming of age of female candidates is that their gender is no longer a novelty, no more potent than specific concerns over taxes or crime -- or war and peace. " 'Women's issues...
...largely been won. One measure of the 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...
...there is a theme among those coming of age today -- and a theme for this issue -- it is that gender differences are often better celebrated than suppressed. Young women do not want to slip unnoticed into a man's world; they want that world to change and benefit from what women bring to it. The changes are spreading. Eager to achieve their goals without sacrificing their natures, women in business are junking the boxy suits and one-of-the-boys manner that always seemed less a style than a disguise. In psychology the old view that autonomy is the hallmark...
Naturally, not all women managers like to hug their employees, and not all male bosses are insensitive negotiators. "Gender isn't necessarily destiny in management style," affirms Christie Hefner, 37, who succeeded her father two years ago as chairman and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises. Nor do the so-called feminine qualities of consensus building and listening imply a lack of spine, although, as Hefner wryly observes, such traits "were not greatly valued in management books until they began to be defined as Japanese...