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Robert Rackleff, 47, is one of the rare men who have stepped off the corporate treadmill. Five years ago, after the birth of their third child, Rackleff and his wife JoEllen fled New York City, where he was a well-paid corporate speechwriter and she a radio-show producer. They moved to his native Florida, where Rackleff earns a less lavish living as a free-lance writer and helps his wife raise the kids. The drop in income, he acknowledges, "was scary. It put more pressure on me, but I wanted to spend more time with my children." Rackleff feels...
...really want? To define themselves on their own terms, just as women began to do a couple of decades ago. "Would a women's group ask men if it was O.K. to feel a certain way?" asks Jerry Johnson, host of the San Francisco-based KCBS radio talk show Man to Man. "No way. We're still looking for approval from women for changes, and we need to get it from the male camp...
...time when corporations increasingly expect employees to work with minimal supervision and to show more initiative, cooperation and fresh approaches are essential. Instead of viewing workers of a different sex and of varied cultural backgrounds as an unmanageable and imperfect lot, some top executives see them as a new and flexible resource. Says Colgate-Palmolive's Mark: "We do business in 60 countries. We are a multicultural company, so we should have multicultural managers." Encouraging diversity, after all, is not just an accommodation to the new realities of the U.S. labor force. It can be another way of ensuring that...
Cleaning up messes has long been relegated to women's work, as have certain other issues that have suddenly risen to the top of the political agenda, like worrying over the young, the aged, the sick and the environment. Surveys show that women are perceived to be better than men on these issues, as well as to have higher ethical standards and greater honesty. "Our stereotype," says Democratic Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, "is finally in." Pollster Mervin Field goes further, predicting that the 1990s will be the "decade of women in politics...
When women candidates suggest that they should be trusted more on an issue they know about -- for instance, reproductive rights -- men cry foul, despite the fact that for years they have been touting their war records as a way to show how much they can be trusted on national defense. During the primary campaign for California's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein said that as a woman she would be more steadfast in her support of abortion than her pro-choice male opponent. For that temerity, she was called sexist. The New York Times editorialized that...