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SEXIST Victor Kiam Dick Ebersol When Boston Herald What did this NBC OFFENDERS reporter Lisa Olson executive blame for the Johnson Controls, Inc. complained that ¦ SSS1G flap caused when he Chivalry is alive and well football players from replaced Today show and misdirected. If a the New England veteran Jane Pauley with woman wanted a top-paying Patriots aimed lewd dishy ingenue Deborah job at the Milwaukee remarks and gestures Norville in 1989? . Johnson Controls plant, at her in the locker If two men had been where toxic lead is used room last year, team involved, Ebersol whined, to ma e car batteries, owner Kiam reportedly this year for refusing people wouldn’t have she had to prove called Olson a classic to wear any makeup on assumed a catfight broke she was bitch. Kiam denies ever the job, no one at the out between the anchors. ii? infertile. having made the remark, company batted an eyelash. Why, then, was the but at a banquet a few But when the victim immensely popular Pauley supplanted by a « CONTINENTAL younger, 11111111 f 11» m i r 1111 (f«

: It blunder woman whose Although lead can also went public, and a torrent claim to fame harm men s reproductive months later, he told a of media coverage was her stint as a corres¬ systems, this pate alistic joke linking Olson, Iraqi (front-page stories, a pondent on a prime-time employer protected Scuds and Patriot full-scale discussion on documentary called Bad women only. So the United missiles. Ha ha. Oprah and a skit on Girls? Sexism? Auto Workers challenged Carson) followed, the the company s biased Continental Airlines airline quickly Judge James C. policy in 1990, ta ing it all When the airline fired a reinstated her without Cacheris the way to the Supreme Boston ticket agent earlier blushing. So what if the boss at Court, which ruled in favor Uslico Corp., an Arlington, tonffiENRY A. KOKOJAN/Rangetinders. of the women last March. BY CY THI CftOSSEN Va.-based insurance

NOVEMBER 1991 • WORKING WOMA 115 holding company, that even though Ann scientific community. Five and then stepped over it. repeatedly massaged his Hopkins had brought in years later she was Rumored to have harassed secretary s back and more business than any of vindicated. Imanishi-Kari one lover’s wife with phone followed her into the the 87 men up for partner, calls the affair a witch¬ calls and letters, she bathroom. You call that she wasn’t socially hunt. Agreed, but who’s allegedly tried to influence sexual harassment? acceptable the witch? the judge presiding over This federal judge didn t. enough to ma e another lover’s divorce by Earlier this year he ruled in the grade. One Leona hiring the judge’s daughter favor of the recently male colleague Helmsley as a government employee. divorced boss, likening him advised her to After In 1988 Myerson was to a faithful dog, get a makeover; charging charged with mail fraud, constantly e pressing his another said she luxury items conspiracy and obstructing affection. ___ should go to for her justice. She was eventually c harm school. country acquitted, but her tiara is Instead, she estate permanently tarnished. went to including a court, and $13,000 last year a federal barbecue pit to her judge told the giant husband’s hotel and real I accounting firm estate companies. New it was time to York’s notorious Queen of ¦jive Hopkins back-pay ean was convicted of w ith interest, totaling over income tax evasion and $370,000, and to sentenced to prison in offer her the position 1989. Yet she’s still she deserved seven appearing in company years ago. She took ads still gazing into a * the job. mirror. Not exactly the fairest of them all.

Deborah Gore Dean As top aide to the Secretary of Housing and Urban WOMEN Development, this UNDER THE bartender-tumed-wheeler- dealer allegedly passed out INFLUE CE favors including federal Julia hillips money meant for housing Phillips co-produced such for the poor to her blockbuster movies as brat-pack pals, leaving the Phyllis Schlafly The Sting and Close department in fiscal shreds. Has this woman ever been Encounters of the Third She resigned in 1988, but it on the right side of any Kind. Then she slipped into wasn’t until a year later issue affecting working something more that the scandal broke. women? Principal strategist comfortable Even her boss, Secretary of the anti-Equal Rights self-destruction halting a Samuel Pierce (himself no Amendment movement, drug-induced demise in novice at influence¬ Schlafly spread the news time to write a best-seller. peddling), said Dean liked that the ERA would result She disagrees, but the idea that I can call the in a gender-neutral acknowledges that “a lot of shots, I can get this for \ u society common toilets, people think I have blown it if I want, I can stomp cm pregnant women in the for women.” Sorry, Julia you, I can kill you. military and homosexual majority mles. marriages accelerating the Bess Myerson spread of AIDS. Equal pay Thereza There she is another for women? Forget about it. Imanishi-Kari Miss America with Tougher enforcement of When her research hidden talents. The antidiscrimination laws? associate, Margot O’Toole, former beauty queen, Get outta here. accused her of faking data consumer advocate in an immunological study and congressional Price Waterhouse in 1986, Imanishi-Kari candidate put In 1983 this Big Eight lashed back. O’Toole was everything on the accounting firm decided fired and ostracized by the line for love

116 WORKING WOMAN • NOVE BER 1991 New York Times Convicted of pei uty and seminars, explaining how that she had nothing better editorial, March 13,1990: obstruction of justice in high-priced prostitution to do than torture her lover The jacket has become 1989, Jones received an 18- rings such as her own and his family. But finally the working oman s month prison sentence and actually help some women. she got what any bad security blanket.... a $50,000 fine. Call it But when asked why she stereotype Goin about sans jacket, hit-the-Wall Street. didn’t join the effort to at deserves: a revealing imperfections least get prostitutes off the bullet in the or perfections demands Mary Cunningham streets, Barrows replied, chest and a confidence, a true sense She claims that there was I’m not a social-service deadly dunk- of belonging.... But no hanky-panky with her person. ing in the tub. women are not there, not boss, Bendix chairman quite yet. William Agee, and maybe WORST April that s true. Maybe she PERFOR¬ O Neil Donald Trump traveled in the corporate jet (Teenage on wh t he paid with him and shared the MANCE BY Mutant his wife, Ivana,for company-owned suite at A STEREO¬ Ninja running the the Waldorf merely as a Turtles) Plaza Hotel in valued executive. Maybe TYPE Winner of the New York: she hired his cleaning Clair Huxtable Lois Lane A dollar a woman and wrote his (Phylicia Rashad, The Memorial year plus all daughter’s college Cosby Show) Bimbo the dresses application strictly as a pal. She’s supposed to be a Award, this she can But when the two married hot-shot lawyer, but when girl reporter buy. shortly after she was forced does this woman work? works in television news, out of the company in Ever seen Clair buried where her typically female STUPIDITY 1981, those who believe under legal briefs? Ever beat includes covering such that high-ran ing corporate heard her discuss the latest breaking stories as AS AN ART women invariably sleep judicial appointment? Swimsuits in the ’90s. FORM their way to the top got Wondered why she has so Like Lois, she can’t help Lisa Ann Jones fresh rounds of ammunition. much time to banter with getting into scrapes, and it The first person convicted her family? It’s because her always takes a man (or four in connection with the Judge E. B. Haltom career is a prop, like the boy turtles) to save the day. insider-trading scandals on This federal judge refrigerator and the bed, Wall Street, Drexel dismissed a sexual- only it’s used less often. Diana Christensen Burnham Lambert trading harassment suit filed this (Faye Dunaway, Network) assistant Jones was so year by a woman who She was every man’s enamored of her $100,000- claimed her boss fired her nightmare: a woman who plus job that she lied to a for spuming his advances. talks shop while having grand jury about the Nonsense, the judge mled, sex. Head of a network company s shifty policies. stating that the plaintiff news division, Diana would wore little or no makeup, do anything to boost Barrows . and her hair was not colored ratings even arrange an in any way. Compared to on-air killing. In a . the boss s wife, he weird reversal of the J Ssf reasoned, the woman Katharine Parker usual Hollywood v wasn’t attractive enough to (Sigou ey Weaver, cliche, screenwriter ife appeal to the defendant. So Working Girl) Paddy Chayefsky > much for blind justice. In the successful-woman- said that while as-bitch role, this scheming Diana Sidney Biddle vixen lied, cheated and represented fc 1 Barrows stole her secretary’s best television, the Some people never ideas, endorsing the notion movie’s lea . The Mayflower that women at the top enjoy hero. Madam pleaded guilty screwing women almost as to a misdemeanor much as men do. charge in 1985 and then wrote a book Alex Forrest describing what a (Glenn Close, Fatal played by smart and Attraction) William Holden, compassionate Perpetuating the myth that represented humanity. businesswoman she career-driven women are We’d like to know was. Now she’s inevitably neurotic, this evil why women never get to f holding how-to editrix’s life was so empty do both.

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