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...current appeal of such male chauvinist beliefs can be traced to Islam's response to Western expansionism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Fearing the erosion of their culture, the Wahhabis and others chose to assert values that set them apart, including the negative aspects of Islam's treatment of women. Modern Islamic fundamentalism is essentially a revival of this earlier reaction against the West...
Officially, the NIH has had a policy since 1986 of requiring grant applicants to at least "consider" including women in their research. But that policy has been limply enforced. In September NIH acting director Dr. William Raub set up a special office to explore the problem...
Says Rudner: "If I do a whole set and I don't have anything new, I really am depressed, no matter how well it went. I would rather try a new joke and have it bomb than play it safe." Like her colleagues, she finds plenty of pratfalls in autobiography. She recalls her overprotective parents: "My tricycle had seven wheels. And a driver." She speaks about pets with fancy trims: "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." And she fondly remembers an apartment near New York City's Central Park. "I couldn...
...whether to stay home or go to work. And the women were left so vulnerable." Careers become a form of insurance. "I don't want to depend on anybody," says Kellie Moore, 19, a U.S.C. junior who plans to get a business degree. "I have friends who have already set up their own credit structure because they watched their mothers try to set one up after a divorce...
...April 1989, Shalini Malhotra, 20, a Delhi newlywed, was beaten and doused in whiskey and then set aflame. Four days later, after accusing her husband, she died of her burns. Women's rights organizations were quick to label it a "dowry death," the murder of a newlywed because she does not bring enough money to the marriage. Before her death, Malhotra told authorities that her husband Praveen had been pressuring her family to give him money to start a business. Malhotra had resisted this request...