Word: makeing
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...road to top management, they have made dramatic inroads into occupations previously reserved mostly for men. Nearly 18% of doctors are now women, as are 22% of lawyers, 32% of computer systems analysts and nearly half of accountants and auditors. Over the next several years, women will make up the majority of new skilled and educated workers...
Noble as these efforts are, the chief executives pushing open the doors to the executive suite are acting more out of pragmatism than probity. "It doesn't make sense to cut yourself off from half of the talented people in this world," observes George Harvey, chief executive of Pitney Bowes, the giant Connecticut-based office-equipment company. "If we're known as a good place to work, more good people will want to work here. That will make us more competitive, which means more sales and higher stock prices...
Critics counter these arguments by asserting that it is worth the trouble and expense of recruiting women research subjects, given that women make up half the population -- and half the taxpayers underwriting federal research. Concern for the fetus is often exaggerated, they say. "There is a tendency to think of women as walking wombs," says the University of Wisconsin's Karlin. Most female cardiac patients, she notes, are not planning to get pregnant...
...Whenever Rudner has been considered as the potential star of her own TV show, she says, "the first thing that happens in all of my interviews is, 'We'll assign writers to you, and they will follow you around.' I say, 'But I am a writer. Can't I make a contribution?' And they say, 'Well, you're not really network approved, because you haven't written anything yet.' " No wonder that Rudner is off in Britain now, shooting a series...
...magazines; I shop; I spend more than I should. To look chic is to feel great. No matter how we women yearn to be valued for other qualities, we invest a considerable amount of our psychic selves in our appearance. We're not all born beautiful, but we can make the most of what we've got. That's the art of style: improving on nature. Fashion helps us shape that sense of style, give it definition, freshness, sparkle, zing...