Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, women at the top resist taking up women's issues, wanting to avoid being typed as single-issue advocates, or emphasizing one aspect of self, gender, over other aspects, such as career...
...council constitution and Harvard policy are promises not to endorse organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender or sexual orientation. In accordance with Congressional legislation (Title X, U.S. Code), the armed forces specifically prohibit women from holding certain jobs. Department of Defense regulations require commands to discharge homosexuals. When the council endorses a campus ROTC program, it violates its constitution and breaks a promise to us, its constituents...
This discrimination is alone enough to disqualify ROTC from both support of the University and the endorsement of the council. Both have explicit policies against abetting discrimination on grounds of gender or sexual orientation...
Other figures, if not cause for satisfaction, at least recognize outrageous problems from past years. While women outnumbered men by 135 to 77 in last year's admitted class of Black students, this year's gender representation at least approached reasonable levels with 108 women and 100 men admitted...
...Club, which is being investigated by the state on charges of gender discrimination, asked to be exempted from a plan to redraw the borders of the Harvard Square Overlay District and to reduce the floorto-area ratios of certain lots by nearly 60 percent...