Word: workingwomen
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STOP SHORTCHANGING WORKINGWOMEN. Social Security is a rare if not unique institution that pays cash for housework and mothering. It pays a wife a benefit at least equal to 50% of her husband's, even if she never worked outside the home or paid a penny of Social Security tax. But women who worked on and off at low-paying jobs, as all too many in the generation nearing retirement age have done, receive pensions no higher than the stay-at-home moms. In effect, the Social Security taxes these workingwomen have paid earn them nothing...
DIED. MUMEO OKU, 101, Japanese feminist who took the politics of the kitchen to the parliament floor; in Tokyo. As founder of the Housewives Association, Oku gave quality control new meaning by rallying against defective matches and other shoddy goods. Her exactitude, and her efforts on behalf of workingwomen, won her loyal support: in 1947 she was elected to the Diet...
That was the question the Supreme Court faced last week as it addressed for the first time the controversial issue of industrial fetal-protection policies. The Justices' answer, in a decision that could affect millions of workingwomen: companies cannot exclude fertile females from certain high-risk jobs because of the potential harm to unborn babies. "Women as capable of doing their jobs as their male counterparts may not be forced to choose between having a child and having a job," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun in a majority opinion for five Justices. "Decisions about the welfare of future children must...