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...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...
This incident of bias and closed mindedness by the Crimson in many ways explains why we at AALARM have banded together. Harvard University can be seen as a forum for many voices. The individiual students' voices are faint and rarely heard. But the voices of student organizations, publications and the Faculty and administration are strong...
Sara Buel, a third year law student who founded the Battered Women's Advocacy Project, said that the systemic bias in the courts hurt more than just female attorneys...
Abrams said she hopes gender bias in the courtroom will eventually become a form of official misconduct...
Nancy Gertner, a partner in a private Boston law firm, said that the gender bias report's findings confirmed what she had known from personal experience in the state's court system...