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It’s not outright sexism that motivates this bias, Van Ummersen says, but simply the tendency of well-meaning board members to choose people with whom they are comfortable—people like themselves...
Candidates for any job should always be considered as individuals, and to deny that a person’s sex is a central part of who he or she is would be blatantly false. A 2005 study in the journal Social Behavior & Personality found “a gender bias in hiring and firing decisions…at the final-choice stage.” In today’s gender-conscious world, intentionally or not, an applicant’s gender will be a factor in the hiring process. Why not admit this—and admit that...
...considered a strong potential candidate while Lori M. Adelman ’08 was touted as this year’s possible female lead. Yet Gadgil ceded the spot to her running mate John F. Voith III ’07, and Adelman never even ran. Neither cited gender bias as their reason, yet the surprising lack of female candidates must beg the question of why exactly so few women put themselves forward for one of the most prestigious elected roles on campus...
...seeking them out.“We’re trying to cut down on the number of patrols we’re doing because we decided that if we kept looking in certain places over and over and maybe not looking in others, there was a sort of bias there,” Allen said. “So now we’re trying to consider mainly infractions that come in as complaints.”But the dependence on these outside reports could create the potential for finger-pointing among campaigns, some of which center on weightier?...
...quoted in Bethell’s book. And a 1939 poll reported in The Crimson reported that 95 percent of undergraduates opposed immediate US entrance into the War. Although some would dispute the poll’s validity due to The Crimson’s purported isolationist bias, the campus was consumed by a debate global in nature.As the threat of Japanese or German attack grew, so did student support for American intervention. Conant saw more success in turning student opinion as Britain and France came under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses...