Vive la difference, if any. “In reviewing the entries, the jury could find no overt female characteristic in the work” submitted for Inland Architect’s special issue on architecture by women (January/February 1991), writes Cynthia Chapin Davidson. “One could argue that the number of residential projects here sustains the claim that women primarily do residential architecture. . . . More telling, perhaps, was the lack of high-rise buildings among the entries. Are women less interested in the high rise (with its obvious male symbolism) or are they shut out of most opportunities to design such a building? Would a high rise designed by a woman take a different form than that by a man?”
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Oh, darling, a vulture! Just what I wanted! The Chicago Zoological Society suggests that “if you’re not sure candy and flowers will win over your love, let Brookfield Zoo’s Venus the Vulture ‘cut to the heart of the matter.’ Adopt Venus for your sweetheart for $15 and the object of your affections will receive a gift card, an adoption certificate, a photo of Venus, a vulture fact sheet . . .”
The proposed state Family and Medical Leave Act should easily pass the General Assembly this year, reports the Illinois Women’s Agenda in its Notes (January 1991). “The problem will be in convincing Governor Edgar not to veto it. We are looking for anyone who has contacts with Edgar or his staff as we would like to arrange a meeting with him. If you know of anyone who might have an ‘in’ with Edgar–or if you just know a Republican, call . . . ”
Who goes, who stays. Transportation Facts (December 1990) reports that Chicago Area Transportation Study researchers have compared those in the ten-county metropolitan area who took trips to destinations more than 150 miles from downtown Chicago with those who didn’t. The travelers tend to be richer (43 percent of them earn more than $60,000 a year; only 17 percent of the nontravelers make that much) and older (their median age is 39; nontravelers’ 34) and have larger families (2.72 people per household; nontravelers 2.41).
