Taking the poetry out of parenthood. According to the Illinois Caucus on Teenage Pregnancy in LSC Network (May), a school cannot prevent a pregnant student from being valedictorian or homecoming queen, or taking part in any other activity, because of pregnancy. “Remember: treat pregnancy as a temporary disability such as a broken leg.”
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Feeeeeelings, wo, wo, wo, feeeeeelings… Michael Wallace, chief nuclear operating officer of Commonwealth Edison, as quoted in Nuclear Energy Info (May): “When the [Nuclear Regulatory] commission placed Zion on the watch list, it was a significant emotional event…. As we were understanding what some of those issues were and putting our plans together to address them, Dresden was placed on the watch list. That action was a further significant, emotional event for us. It caused us to become even more intent on a driven self-assessment process…. The silver lining is that it has really caused us to look introspectively, broadly and deeply, and then to respond much more aggressively than I think we probably otherwise would.”
Sales pitches that made us think twice: “Amazingly, Highland and Park Country Club is one of the only membership clubs in the area to give full membership privileges to women, with no restrictions even on weekends.”
“The male political structure hasn’t changed very much,” says circuit-court clerk Aurelia Pucinski in Today’s Chicago Woman (May). “Women are chipping away at it, but it’s difficult. I’m still regularly in meetings dominated by men with power, and they still behave in exactly the same ways one would expect them to. More and more now, there are women in those meetings with me. It’s very hard, because men aren’t used to dealing with us in any kind of open or communicative way. It’s still, ‘Hiya honey, how are you doing?.’”
