Word: egalitarians
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...that she here at Harvard, Matlock is as determined as ever to make a difference, to make the University a more egalitarian institution. Matlock says she would like to see more support for young women scholars, and she would like to make cultural studies and the humanities a bigger priority at Harvard...
Movement advocates say Goddess worship restores a prehistoric belief that was eradicated in Europe and the Middle East around 6,000 years ago by patriarchal invaders. The prepatriarchal utopia is portrayed as egalitarian, peace loving and "gynocentric." New scholarly backing for the creed comes from archaeologist Marija Gimbutas in The Language of the Goddess (Harper & Row) and the forthcoming Civilization of the Goddess. The author contends that worship of the "Old European Great Goddess" goes back to 25,000 B.C., though Gimbutas' major evidence stems from farming cultures in southeastern Europe from 6500 B.C. on, especially their ubiquitous female statuettes...
...left wondering how to repond. On a political level, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson perceptively saw the murder of Mary Frug as a "symptom of the disintegration of society" (Crimson, April 6). We are called to spend a little more time fighting for humane rules and egalitarian institutions, and perhaps a little less time securing our own prestigious places in the nation's steep hierarchy of privilege and reward...
...There has been a deterioration in the physical and emotional health of children," says Fuchs. "It is caught up in some way with the failure to resolve the gender issue. The fundamental problem is to deal with the problem in an egalitarian context without short-changing the children...
Fuchs says he sees two sides to the gender issue in labor economic research. There is an analytical interest and a policy interest for scholars. "Analytically, we want to know why discrimination occurs," he says. "The policy interest is to try to make an egalitarian society...