Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...women. The new female leaders want to use at least some of their power to reverse the communist diktat that all women have to work. All over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, women have dreamed, says Poland's Minister of Culture and Arts, Izabella Cywinska, "of reaching the point where we have the choice to stay home." That, more than a place in the power structures -- more than anything else -- is what communism deprived them of, and what they want to retrieve...
...some people, fetal-protection policies are merely a way to avoid making the workplace safe for men and women equally. Feminists also dismiss them as discrimination masquerading as compassion, a disguised way of keeping women out of more lucrative men's jobs. Critics of the fetal-protection policies also point out that toxic substances in the workplace may damage genes in male sperm. "A man or woman working in a plant should be told the dangers and make up their own minds," says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women...
That's the point. And it does not have to come at women's expense. "It is stupid to conclude that the empowerment of women means the disempowerment of men," says Robert Moore, a psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Chicago. "Men must also feel good about being male." Men would do well, in fact, to invite women into their lives to participate in these changes. It's no fun to face them alone. But if women can't or won't, men must act on their own and damn the torpedoes. No pain, no gain...
...wives of the Prophet Muhammad were vibrant, outspoken women. His first, Khadija, ran a prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...
...child single-handedly, despite a tangle of cultural, biological and sometimes legal complications. Virtually all either have tired of waiting for Mr. Right or have no interest in finding him. Most are women who have achieved a measure of economic self-sufficiency but have delayed childbearing to the point where they hear their biological clocks approaching midnight. "I could imagine going through life without a man," explains Paula Van Ness, 39, executive director of the National Community AIDS Partnership in Washington, "but I couldn't imagine going through life without a child. My biological clock started sounding like a time...