Yet CCRI would do this and thus expressly permit discrimination against women and girls where it has never been legally permitted. White men of power - bankers, realtors. After years of courageous struggle, the first women entered the San Francisco Fire Department in 1987. Help wanted ads were divided into men's jobs and women's jobs. Today, two-thirds of all poor in America are women.
Women are still more likely than men to live in poor housing, receive no health insurance.
They are twice as likely to draw no pension. The average female college graduate today earns less than a man with no more than a high school diploma. But make no mistake, it will be a central issue, a wake-up call to California women and men of good will. The upcoming NOW rally could become an historic event. Paul Rockwell, formerly assistant professor of philosophy at Midwestern University, is a writer who lives in Oakland, California.