Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, who was recently denied tenure and is considering suing the University for gender discrimination, made a brief appearance at the rally to express her support for the student protesters. "I feel a great deal of joy, a great deal of encouragement, and I feel as if the struggle is in good hands," she said...
...times, each faction has had enough pull to bring the tenure process to a grinding halt, destroying the faculty's collegiality. Most recently, the case of Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, who was denied tenure by the faculty and President Bok on review, has raised issues of gender and political discrimination that have turned academic disputes into personal ones...
...four decisions he had to decide and in his pre-empting an issue for the jury, Garrity concluded that Harvard's treatment of Walters was not motivated by gender discrimination. The jury, after two days of deliberation, ruled that the University's conduct violated a contractual agreement to treat men and women equally...
...reference to your April 4th editorial, "Final Clubs: Battling Elitism," you wrote "It's impossible to attack the final clubs on strictly legal grounds for charging money and choosing who they want--thousands of (other clubs) do the same thing. Financiai elitism is protected by our laws, gender elitism is not." Gender discrimination is clearly practiced by the clubs: none of the nine presently admit women. Some would say this is an issue which would fall within the bounds of an argument on the interpretation of constitutional law, around the definition of the right of free association...
...treat women. But men who want to change those standards must create their own organizations, rather than attaching themselves to groups established by and for women. These men need to work together and address this issue in terms of their own involvement and within their own gender...