Comments on: on cultural and political change reporting in NYT http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/06/28/on-cultural-and-political-change-reporting-in-nyt.html Economic Sociology from the Ground Up Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael E. Marotta http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2009/06/28/on-cultural-and-political-change-reporting-in-nyt.html#comment-312 Michael E. Marotta Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:19:37 +0000 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/?p=750#comment-312 1. What is a "process piece"? 2. I am 60. I have seen tremendous social change in my lifetime. When I attended The College of Charleston 1967-1969, the city park near the school had washrooms for Men, Women, and Colored -- and those words were literally cut in stone. The chiropractor in our neighborhood had a sign for Colored Entrance. Women now outnumber men as applicants to significant law schools; and at some medical schools the measure of discrimination is that women are over-represented in pediatrics. In 1970, none of that was true. The complaint that so-called "gay rights" laws fail to pass, or are repealed, begs a question that was recently not even askable. ------------- NEW YORK TIMES November 28, 1920, Sunday Section: Editorial, Page 32, 1250 words Columbia's Law School, that last stronghold in the university of the unterrified male, is again under siege. And not only are the women clamoring for admission, but it is rumored that there are those within the walls who are at least somewhat in sympathy with the invaders. -------------- When Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock entered Cornell in 1919, the ratio of women to men in university sciences was at a height it would not attain again until the mid-1970s. 1. What is a “process piece”?

2. I am 60. I have seen tremendous social change in my lifetime. When I attended The College of Charleston 1967-1969, the city park near the school had washrooms for Men, Women, and Colored — and those words were literally cut in stone. The chiropractor in our neighborhood had a sign for Colored Entrance. Women now outnumber men as applicants to significant law schools; and at some medical schools the measure of discrimination is that women are over-represented in pediatrics. In 1970, none of that was true. The complaint that so-called “gay rights” laws fail to pass, or are repealed, begs a question that was recently not even askable.

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NEW YORK TIMES November 28, 1920, Sunday
Section: Editorial, Page 32, 1250 words
Columbia’s Law School, that last stronghold in the university of the unterrified male, is again under siege. And not only are the women clamoring for admission, but it is rumored that there are those within the walls who are at least somewhat in sympathy with the invaders.
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When Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock entered Cornell in 1919, the ratio of women to men in university sciences was at a height it would not attain again until the mid-1970s.

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