Word: equalize
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...would be nice if men and women were equal, and society should aspire to that goal, but the fact of the matter is that we have a long way to go. It is still assumed by many Americans—the Harvard community included—that in social situations even strong, confident women should occupy a position inferior and subservient to that of their male counterparts. Countering the vulnerable position women are placed in at parties is an issue that extends far beyond feminism and gender equality...
...Harvard administration and alumni were serious about representing equal opportunities in the campus and being a progressive institution, they have considerable catching up to do with Yale. Yale’s “Women’s Table,” was constructed and donated by Maya Lin in 1993, a member of the Yale Corporation, who is also a Yale undergraduate and graduate school alumna. The sculpture is a fountain with water flowing out from the center, with a spiraling record of female numbers at Yale by year, from 1702 to 1992; the zeros do not end until...
...simple, but elegant structure has a profound effect on Yale undergrads, even from the first year. “The Women’s Table is a subtle, but truly significant symbol of women’s rise to equal opportunity. Its location at the center of our campus, a leading institution, is a testament, not only to women’s tremendous gains in the world, but shows Yale’s progressive commitment to diversity and equality,” says Allyson M. Goldberg, ’08, of Yale College...
...PSTricks and LaTeX to generate book-quality pages? Who wants to spend four to eight hours cranking out this lab report when you can spend nine to fourteen hours—all in a row—to make sure that all the equations are aligned exactly at the equal signs and that every floating table is separated from the adjacent text by exactly 24 points (or a third of an inch...
...progressive values. Denizens of the heartland don’t want the government to dictate their private lives. Progressives agree—that’s why we think the government has no business telling you whom you can marry or controlling your reproductive rights. Progressives believe that an equal opportunity is every child’s moral right and that we must give a helping hand to those working hard just to get by. Whether they’re struggling to make ends meet in a red state or a blue state, working Americans everywhere want their family healthy...