Word: powering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...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 aren't on the radar screen." In addition, powerful men want to project power. Fighting for the right to take time off to care for a newborn or an aging parent is not the read-my-lips image that wins elections...
Money follows power, and as women accumulate more of it their treasuries will grow. According to Jane Danowitz, executive director of the Women's Campaign Fund, when women run for the big-ticket offices in which Big Business has an interest, "gender is no bar. Money takes notice, as it did in gubernatorial races in California and Texas, and the Senate race in Hawaii...
...many Islamic countries have whittled away at the legal rights of women. In Egypt, for instance, the Supreme Court in 1985 struck down a 1979 law that gave a woman the right to divorce her husband should he take a second wife. Sudan's military regime, which seized power in 1989, refuses to allow women who are not accompanied by a father, husband or brother to leave the country without permission from one of the three...
...presumed sex bomb proved to be a dud on Election Day, according to NBC's exit poll. Now women give Quayle even less support than men do. A recent TIME survey found that only 20% of American women (vs. 30% of men) view Quayle as qualified to assume power if something happened to George Bush. The contrast is one of many demonstrating that a gender gap still yawns in U.S. politics...
...wage of men leaped from $15,056 to $24,621. Then, quite suddenly, it started to drop. By 1987 the male wage, adjusted for inflation, was back down to $19,859, a 19% decline. To shore up family income, wives have flooded into the labor market, but their earning power is low. In 1988 the average family income was only 6% higher than in 1973, though almost twice as many wives were at work. In many households, one well-paid smokestack job with health insurance has been replaced by two service jobs without benefits. Burger King doesn't provide...