Possible Clues:

• All-male race makes for a lack of progress
• Idleness of the male population?
• Cessation of movement
• Party people still standing
• In rank, irritating little thing almost making no progress
• Only men like Al can land in foulness and like it. (Note: Each theme answer is a word that can divide into two smaller words--like DOZEN, DO, and ZEN--and all three words are defined in a "clue sentence." Your job in each sentence is to separate the three real clues from the extraneous words.)
• Standing still but not against reform
• Even though they're still bad, they're such dear-sounding people
• State of little activity
• For under one buck, people still get it bad