Word: gender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the Revolution, women in Cuba were doubly oppressed, according to Figueroa, one of two women in the group and the most vocal of the five. Women in pre-revolutionary Cuba were kept down both because of the social regime and because of their gender. Figueroa said: "Sexual discrimination limited women in society in all aspects-the legal system and the educational system, as well as the mass media, which saw women primarily as a market to increase their capital. Women were taught to occupy themselves with beauty....The whole culture, if we can call this culture, discriminated against them...
Their chief philosopher was Phyllis Schlafly, who may run against Illinois Senator Charles Percy in the Republican primary next year. "The Equal Rights proponents," she charged, "want to reconstruct us into a gender-free society, so there's no difference between men and women. I don't think babies need two sex-neutral parents. I think they need a father and a mother...
Fortunately, this gender confusion can usually be corrected with sex-hormone therapy and delicate surgery. Because the treatment is seldom reversible, a mistake in picking the proper gender can have disastrous consequences in later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual...
...play's end there still remains the disorienting disclosure of the performers' gender. All along, The Club has been a bastion of masculinity whose patrons have seemed enamored of their lifestyle and loath to relinquish it. But suddenly we learn that the play is intended to reflect what women believe men think. Throwing off its comic guise. The Club reveals itself to be social commentary...
...many Americans, affirmative action for the sake of equality seems a threat to the very concept of equality. If two people are equally qualified and one is favored over the other because of race or gender, is that not undemocratic and unfair? Says Martin S. Goldman, New England education director of the B'nai B'rith: "The evil is discrimination. One does not end discrimination by discriminating...