Word: genderization
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...getting down to the essence of shapelessness, formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen by Kawakubo for both its lilt and its casual defiance of traditional gender stereotypes) resemble items from a thrift shop at the far corner of Macbeth's blasted heath. Nonetheless, they have an ease that confounds traditional expectations of elegance...
...sunny terrace above the cypress-shaded San Antonio River, four Congresswomen gleefully summed up the moment. Said Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York: "We've got the issues, we've got the gender gap on our side, and at long last the men are going to pay attention to us." Republican Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine said that even the White House had begun to take notice. Not a moment too soon. The fourth member of the group, Democrat Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, had brought both Republican and Democratic delegates to their...
...kindest explanation for Reagan's gender gap comes from those women who, like Congresswoman Snowe, try to see it as a generation gap. Says Snowe: "He's just not capable of understanding the problems of today's women." But groups like the Women's Truth Squad on Reagan of the National Organization for Women take a harsher view, with their detailed indictments of Reagan's positions on women's issues. NOW cites Reagan's plans to reduce affirmative-action requirements and equal-employment regulations, his opposition to programs designed to produce educational equity...
...especially beneficial to women. She wondered, not without reason, "why the Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
Democrats should not begin rehearsing Happy Days Are Here Again, warns Ann Lewis, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "The gender gap is just an opportunity. It doesn't mean women have given the Democratic Party their proxy, and the gap will exist only as long as women perceive there is a real difference between parties...