Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of how it is settled, Heckendorn's complaint could encourage similar challenges by high-ranking women who believe they have been wrongfully passed over. While women have brought record numbers of sexual harassment and bias suits in the past year, the pinnacles of corporate power have remained virtually all-male aeries untroubled by female challenges. "It's very unusual to have a suit at this level, although I've been approached by a number of highly placed executive women who have been harassed by a CEO or someone of equally high rank," says Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5...
Nelson renders in detail the texture of life at a news room, especially the factional warring which dominates the Post. Deep bias can be detected in much of her analysis however, and she often speculates on others' motives without documentation...
According to the New York-based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, skinheads have taken 22 victims in the past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who number about 3,500, are now a bigger racist threat than the Ku Klux Klan. The relatively small death toll, points out Portland, Oregon, police officer Loren Christensen, is misleading. "What makes them real dangerous," he says, "is that it doesn't take many to terrorize a community." Or even...
That possibility infuriates critics, who argue that the healthier approach would be to take the stigma out of being short. Instead, says Barnard, the NIH is legitimizing bias by implicitly "telling kids they're not adequate as they...
Vendler says she has seen no statistical evidence of a gender bias in the tenure process, and Garber, who is dean for affirmative action, says being a woman can sometimes even be an advantage...