Word: gender-blind
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...rate of female tenuring because the 1997 Affirmative Action Plan is little more than an affirmative awareness plan. As Knowles wrote in the fax, "I hope that in the coming years, the gender ratio in the College and on the faculty may in all fields approach unity...and that all admissions (to the College) and all appointments (to the Faculty) be gender-blind...
...that the University is not doing enough to rectify the situation, and that it must make an enormous, conscious and affirmative effort to rid itself of its male hangover. If the President, Deans and department chairs of the University continue to offer only significant improvements, in the vein of "gender-blind" appointments, neither they nor most of us will see the day when The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard can happily go defunct...
While we are pleased that increasing numbers of women are admitted to Harvard each year, we do not believe that the College should aim to achieve a gender quota as the staff implies. The only just way to achieve gender equity is through a College policy of recruiting talented women and men with equal vigor and evaluating applications on a gender-blind basis. --Dan S. Aibel '98 --Alex M. Carter '00 --Missy R. Langsam '00 --Noah D. Oppenheim...
...admissions process is absolutely gender-blind, says Dr. Gerald S. Foster, director of admissions at the medical school...
...What the decision would mean is that it wouldbe a gender-blind punch. There's no stipulationthat women have to be punched, but I imagine thatsome members will punch women," he said...