The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
What stigma means. Beyond any definition, stigma has become a marker for adverse experiences (see Box 1â). First among these is a sense of shame. Mental illness, despite centuries of learning and the âDecade of the Brainâ, is still perceived as an indulgence, a sign of weakness.