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Think that what young men want most is money,
prestige, and power? Guess again.
According to a study released by the Radcliffe
Public Policy Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
70% of men aged 21 to 29 said they would trade
in some of their pay for more family time. What's
more surprising is that only 63% of women in their
twenties agreed.
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| Most executives at Martha Stewart Living
Omnimedia are women, but daughters who participated in
this year's Take Our Daughters To Work Day would never
know that. Instead of learning the challenges of running
a multimedia outfit, they spent most of the day rotating
between cooking, craft, and gardening activities. After
lunch they met with Ms. Stewart. We can only hope that
during the Q&A, the girls asked Martha how they would
earn a living making crafts. |
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| On April 2, 2000, a unique headline ran
in the op/ed section of the Hartford Courant: "Wanted:
An Answer to Why Fewer Women Write Letters to the Editor."
The daily had noticed that about two thirds of letters
were written by men, and asked why. More than 140 women
found the time to articulate that time is just what they're
lacking. "Women assured us that they have opinions; they
are just too busy juggling work and family to write about
them," says Bill Williams, letters editor. "Get real!"
wrote Carol E. Dares. "If women spent time writing letters,
who would take responsibility for the minutiae of raising
the kids, nursing the elderly parents, cleaning the bathrooms,
maintaining the relationship, planning the social life,
doing the civic duty, and now that we're liberated, bringing
home the bacon?" Wanted: an answer to why so many women
are still soloing on the second shift. |
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| Maybe it's the sensation of fingers on a
tired scalp, or the way the shears echo chimelike as they
shape the latest do. Whatever the reason, women are prone
to purge their secrets at the salon. "Hairdressers often
see signs or hear stories of abuse," says Susan O'Toole,
director of community outreach at the Women's Center of
Southeastern Connecticut, "but they don't know how to
deal with it." That's why she created a seminar for cosmetologists
on how to counsel while they cut, teaching them how to
approach clients and offer referrals. The idea is gaining
popularity: O'Toole received calls from 135 organizations
wanting to conduct the seminar, and the Nevada State Board
of Cosmetology is developing a training program. Her next
targets are restaurant workers and taxi drivers. Says
O'Toole, "Domestic violence is everyone's responsibility."
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