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Beneath all the rhetoric about equal access, one fact stands out; there will be no noticeable improvement in the present 2.3 to 1 male-female ratio for at least three more years...
Students were admitted in approximately the same male to female ratio as they applied, from a pool of 735 applicants...
Except for numbers, the two groups have little in common. For one thing, a disproportionate number of the American aged are women, who outnumber men by a ratio of 143 to 100. The reasons are obvious. Women tend to outlive men by an average of seven years; they also tend to marry men several years older than themselves, a fact that accounts for the high proportion of widows among elderly women. Nor is this the only difference between the young and the old. A significant number of today's elderly are, according to University of Chicago Professor Bernice Neugarten...
...these substandard homes are public institutions. The majority, however, are private. The reason for the ratio is money-public money, ironically, appropriated to give aid and comfort to the Indigent aged. In 1966 the Federal Government began to pay for nursing-home care through Medicaid, a federal-state program that last year spent $4.4 billion of its $12.7 billion budget on the elderly. The sudden gush of cash set loose a nursing-home boom as many entrepreneurs, many of them interested only in the bottom line, rushed into the business...
...years after this start, GSD seems to have regressed, as there is only one woman left in the Department of Architecture. It is sad that the other two apparantly didn't work out--but it seems inconceivable that they could not have been replaced by other women. The faculty ratio at the moment...