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MacKinnon also cited the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law to all citizens as a guarantee of the law's constitutionality. She argued that the bias against women in state justice systems deprives them of equal protection and that Congress can use its power granted by the Fourteenth Amendment to remedy those violations with the VAWA...
...position on homosexuality outside a court case. "The anti-gay view is never communicated to any member," Wolfson says. "The freedom of association turns on what brings members together. And scouting is not about bigotry." (Interestingly, the Girl Scouts have an antidiscrimination policy that is understood to forbid bias against lesbians--though Girl Scout leaders aren't supposed to display their sexuality...
...Since the admissions became competitive in the mid- 20th century, there has been a tip for Harvard-Radcliffe sons or daughters.” Lewis uses “tip” (as in “of the scale”) to describe the slight bias toward legacies; ceteris paribus, the committee will tend to accept the legacy over the non-legacy. An interesting side-note: the long-standing “tip” has only applied to women since 1975, as Radcliffe did not observe the practice before the admissions offices merged...
...rule, undergraduate prizes should be open to both men and women without bias. However, there is a clear imbalance between the number of prizes available solely to women and men. The Frothingham is just one example of a prize open only to men; in addition, there are a number of departmental awards and University-wide prizes exclusively given to male undergraduates, including the Shaw Fellowship, the Barbara Miller Solomon Prize, the William J. Bingham Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Korean War Memorial Prize and the John P. Reardon Prize. Some male-only prizes have a female equivalent; others...
...study found that "junior women faculty feel well supported within their departments and most do not believe that gender bias will impact their careers." But tenured women faculty feel marginalized by disparities in salary, space, awards and resources compared to their male counterparts...