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Nov. 08, 1990: From The Managing Editor
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 08, 1990 Special Issue - Women:The Road Ahead
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 4
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<p> As roughly half the world's population, women would hardly
seem to need to struggle for attention. Yet struggle is
precisely what they have been doing in the final decades of the
20th century. Their endeavors deserve no less a word than
revolution--in expectations, accomplishments, self-realization
and relationships with men. It is a revolution that, though far
from complete, promises over time to bring about changes as
profound for men and women as any that have occurred in Eastern
Europe or the Soviet Union in the past year.
</p>
<p> It was in this context that we decided it was time to
prepare an entire issue on women. The subject is familiar to
TIME readers. In 1972 we published a magazine almost wholly
devoted to the American woman. In recent years, while following
women's trials and triumphs in our weekly pages, we have done
a number of cover stories on relevant topics, including the
child-care crisis (1987), abortion (1989 and 1990) and the
future of feminism (1989). This time, however, we decided on a
first: we would not only devote an entire magazine to the
subject but make it an extra issue, one that would go to all our
subscribers and be available on the newsstands for several
weeks. We were pleased when Sears found our plans so intriguing
that it offered to become the sole advertiser for this issue.
</p>
<p> Many women on and off our staff were eager to contribute
to the issue, and it is their efforts that chiefly fill these
pages. But we decided early on that it would be inappropriate
to confine our contributors to women, and thus we have also
involved a number of male colleagues. It has been our goal to
make the issue equally interesting to men and to women.
</p>
<p> The issue was prepared under the direction of executive
editor Edward Jamieson and senior editor Claudia Wallis, with
support from virtually every bureau and department. Both editors
are familiar with the subject, Jamieson as the overseer of
TIME's culture, science and society coverage and Wallis as the
author or editor of many stories about women. Says Wallis: "With
this issue we were eager to look forward rather than back at the
women's movement of the '70s. We wanted to see how the next
generation is likely to fare and to what degree women are
changing the worlds of business, politics, the arts and other
fields as they gain influence."
</p>
<p> All of us found it exciting not only to reflect on the
varied and often controversial currents that swirl around
women's daily lives, struggles and victories in America today,
but also to look at the challenges that lie ahead. We consider
that task highly important, and TIME is committed to pursuing
it without stint in the months and years ahead. We hope you get
as much satisfaction from reading this issue as we did from
preparing it.
</p>
<p>-- Henry Muller
</p>
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