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June 29, 1992: Genius over Gender
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
June 29, 1992 The Other Side of Ross Perot
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 33
SOCIETY
Genius over Gender
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<p>This year's MacArthur award winners include a majority of women
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<p> The prestigious MacArthur fellowships are known as "genius
grants," but it doesn't take an Einstein to recognize that men
have consistently won the bulk of the awards. Now the balance
has shifted: 17 of the 33 fellowships for 1992 will go to women.
</p>
<p> This year's crop includes the usual eclectic mix of
talent. There are scholars, like historians Suzanne Lebsock of
Rutgers and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich of the University of New
Hampshire. There are creative artists, among them choreographer
Twyla Tharp. There are social activists, including Janet
Benshoof, a campaigner for women's reproductive rights, and
Unita Blackwell, a small-town mayor and civil rights advocate.
Oh, and there are some males, like Harvard philosopher Stanley
Cavell. The winners get from $150,000 to $375,000 over five
years (younger recipients get less money) to spend as they wish.
</p>
<p> -- The MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling
gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S.
began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to
a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer
prizewinner, has often written about human relationships,
drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the
complexities, bumps and humor of marriage."
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