Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping with The Crimson News Board's gender neutral policy, we will no longer employ the term "freshman." Instead, we will use the words "freshman" and "freshpeople" to refer to first-year undergraduates...
...department also should offer more gender-related courses. The report found that some women may have chosen other social science concentrations because of the lack of such classes...
...many departments have shown no willingness to counteract their gender imbalances. Both the Economics Department--with 24 percent women concentrators--and the History Department--with 27 percent--have a paucity of women concentrators similar to the Government Department, yet neither has recognized the situation as problematic. to the contrary, according to history department chair edward 1. keenan '57, "this doesn't strike me as a great statistical discrepancy...
Departments with small percentages of women concentrators, including the physical sciences, should follow the lead of the Government Department in conducting studies to determine why women stay away. They must address the gender imbalance with more women professors, enhanced course offerings and greater classroom sensitivity...
...Government Department is the most popular undergraduate concentration. That popularity should not have to be gender specific...