Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...management, they have increased their participation by 300% to 400% since the early '70s, and no one can argue that they haven't made some difference. Women lawyers have spearheaded reforms in the treatment of female victims of rape and of battering. Women executives have created supportive networks to help other women up the ladder and are striving to sensitize corporations to the need for ) flexible hours, child care and parental leave. Women journalists have fought to get women's concerns out of the "style section" and onto the front page. Women doctors, according to physician-writer Perri Klass...
...economy cooperates, they may just pull it off, with some help from demographics. This baby-bust generation is about one-third smaller than the baby boomers who came before, which means that employers competing for skilled workers will be drawing from a smaller pool. Today's young people hope that that fact, combined with some corporate consciousness raising about the importance of families, will give them bargaining power for longer vacations, more generous parental leaves and more flexible working conditions...
...does it help that in subtle ways -- a look across the grocery aisle, a comment at the nursery school -- the two kinds of moms exacerbate each other's guilt. Debbie Ippolito of Lakewood, N.J., seethes whenever a working mother makes a comment about all the "free time" she has. "People think you're eating bonbons all day," she rails. "I had a baby, not a lobotomy!" Heightening the rivalry, some of those who gave up the fast track pursue full- time parenting with a competitive drive honed in the business world. "It's not O.K. to just have an average...
Rarely, if ever, do the female prisoners get any help from the fathers of their children. In fact, says Allyn Sielaff, New York City's correction commissioner, husbands, boyfriends and brothers usually drop a woman convict "like a hot potato." While wives and girlfriends line up to visit male inmates, visiting days at women's prisons are virtually all-female affairs...
...Zack was beset with financial problems. Suddenly, Mrs. Zack, who had not worked full time outside the home for 18 years, was taking baby-sitting jobs and cleaning offices at night to provide for her family. Four of her children dropped out of college for a while to help pay the bills. "I felt so desperate," she says. "My skills were so obsolete...