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...inherit property. Suddenly a girl could have positive economic value. Still, feudal tradition has resisted change in many regions, and the government's draconian one-child-per-couple population policy, begun in 1979, has inflamed age-old prejudices against females. Rural and minority families routinely lie, cheat or pay fines in order to try a second pregnancy in the hope of having a son. And female infanticide -- plus its modern variation, the misuse of amniocentesis to identify female fetuses in order to abort them -- continues. The problem is so extensive that government campaigns urge parents to "Love your daughter...
...Torie Osborn, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in Los Angeles. In truth, lesbians have often been made to feel unwelcome as either. Within the gay movement, men have stressed sexual freedom and increased funding to fight AIDS. When lesbians raise such issues as the pay disparity between men and women -- which hits lesbian couples doubly hard but, paradoxically, can benefit gay male couples -- they are often dismissed as irrelevant. In some corners of the women's movement, lesbians are still viewed as an embarrassment: their presence might buttress the conservative claim that feminism leads...
Since 1985 Harvey has enforced that philosophy with his 35-15 plan: at least 35% of all new employees hired must be women, and 15% or more must be members of a minority. Managers' pay and bonuses depend on meeting those targets. One result of such efforts: though the company had almost no female top executives 10 years ago, 17% of corporate officers today are women. Harvey has gone so far as to ban sexist comments from the workplace; persistent offenders are fired...
...rule, they don't cross over to the male power center once elected. For example, a solid majority of women in the Congress stood behind Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California in 1989 when she took on Illinois' powerful Henry Hyde in an attempt to restore Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for victims of rape or incest. The Boxer amendment passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by the President. Although they were unsuccessful, fully 70% of the women Representatives voted to override the veto, in contrast to just 54% of the men. Similarly, it is in legislatures...
While abortion has been a galvanizing issue for women candidates, it is far from the only one: these days, there are plenty of problems to go around. Lots of men care about education, health care, pay equity, child care and parental leave, of course, but in a theoretical, not a life-altering, way. As Schroeder puts it: "Most Congressmen come from Leave It to Beaver families and go back to the district and talk to Leave It to Beaver fathers at the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to people just like themselves. Women's issues...