Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sweat-soaked revolution is borne out by statistics: more than 62% of women over age 18 exercise regularly. According to a 1990 survey by the Melpomone Institute in St. Paul, which studies females and exercise, women also make up more than half the participants in the eight most popular sports in the U.S., including 95% of the 15 million people who do aerobics...
...women have found their liberation in their faith. The veil may be a symbol of oppression to the Western eye, but, to many who wear it, it is freedom -- not just from the tyranny of Western culture but also from unwanted sexual advances. In Cairo veils have become so popular that fashion shows are occasionally staged to show off new styles. Says Leila Takla, a Christian member of the Egyptian parliament: "As long as women are covering their heads and not their minds, it is an individual expression." Unfortunately, however, as laws are revised and rights withdrawn, the cloaking...
...deeper change, according to Penelope Leach, author of the popular parenting manual Your Baby and Child, stems from the Industrial Revolution, which forced a split between the home and the workplace. "Home and its surrounding community used to be everybody's operating base, with work and play and family pretty much intermixed," she says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot...
...father's status has so declined that mental-health experts speak of a new male affliction: kitaku kyofu sho, or a "fear of returning home syndrome." A popular television commercial for an insecticide spray shows a father waking up one day to find he has turned into a cockroach. The ad warns housewives, "If you see a large cockroach, it might be your husband. Please check before you exterminate." Even men will sometimes admit that their privileged status in society isn't all roses. "Women know how to enjoy themselves more than men do," says a mid-level executive...
During the past 20 years, the murder or beating of women by their husbands or boyfriends was so common an occurrence that legitima defesa da honra (legitimate defense of honor) became a popular and tolerated legal defense. National murder statistics are not tracked by sex, but according to Matozinho, in Belo Horizonte (pop. 1.5 million) 24 women are killed each year by husbands or boyfriends. Many more cases go unreported. Most of the assailants are never convicted. "Regardless of the real reasons she was killed, the man's defense is always the same: she was seeing somebody else," says Matozinho...