Word: walkerism
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...Pryor was over, he insisted the President go to bed, only to have Clinton try to drag him downstairs to see Steve Martin's Leap of Faith. The Clintons went out with the Gores one evening in leather jackets and jeans to a Virginia bar to hear Jerry Jeff Walker and drink Molsons...
...work are so politically loaded these days -- there are breakthroughs and backlashes, mommy tracks and mommy wars, glass ceilings and pink-collar ghettos -- that it is often hard to get at the truth. Consider the mixed message from Women and the Work/Family Dilemma by Deborah Swiss and Judith Walker, a much touted book to be published this month. Based on a survey of 902 female graduates of Harvard's law, medical and business schools, the book makes the woman-and-work story more complicated than ever -- if only by suggesting that on this subject what women say is not always...
This apparent contradiction may reflect the fact that women will instinctively offer an official let's-buck-it-up line even if, with more prodding, they are prepared to paint a gloomier anecdotal picture of their office life. What is clear, however, is that Swiss and Walker were cured of one presumption -- that change always comes from the top down. "We thought that if we surveyed the best-credentialed women in the country, we would uncover creative solutions to balancing work and family," says Swiss. ! "Instead, what we found was incredible anger and frustration about the difficulty of being...
...anecdotal evidence gathered in 902 personal interviews with women mostly between the ages of 32 and 45 suggests that Hillary Rodham Clinton's peers often face punishment on the job for daring to get pregnant, taking a few weeks of maternity leave and shortening their workweek. Swiss and Walker call it "the maternal wall...
...Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...