Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this appearance is a deceptive one. To admit students on the basis of their supposed future contribution to society, in a society in which women are excluded from such social contribution and social participation, means to discriminate against women. It creates an institutional bias which, although unstated, nonetheless maintains and perpetuates our secondary status...
...organization will work with other women's groups which have already begun combating alleged bias in university hiring practices. This spring the Women's Equity Action League filed a "class action" suit against hundreds of universities in the U.S., charging them with sex discrimination in hiring, salary determinations, and promotional practices...
...becoming extremely unpopular among students and Faculty for precisely this reason. One undergraduate House and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences each refused to elect representatives to the committee. The Astronomy Department, voting in an official department meeting, censured the committee for its pro-administration bias. "Irresponsible acts on the part of [the] administration have, in our opinion, contributed substantially to the growing disaffection of students and its more active manifestations," their resolution stated...
...CFIA's critics have analyzed correctly the reasons for the Center's inevitable political bias. Contrary to the argument of the "evil money" theorists, few scholars in the Center would allow themselves to be manipulated like marionettes for the sake of a research dollar-whether it comes, as in most instances, from a private foundation, or, as in other instances, from a government agency...
Armed with her bias, a tape recorder and what was to prove to be a subversive sense of humor, Mary set out for the war zone of sex education-Anaheim, Calif. Somewhere in the Neverland of Orange County, trapped by flak from every side, Mary grew up. She got her education not only in sex but in the politics of the public schools and in the slightly mad ways Americans define and propagandize their moral values...