Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kaplan said she considered it necessary for the federal appelate court to overturn Garrity's rulings, in order to make it clear that anti-discrimination laws cover gender discrimination as well as overt sexual harassment...
...discrimination in this country. Imagine the outcry if final club members were to urge us to understand why white people want to be in a club with only whites and that Blacks should build their own clubs--as people have argued with women. Schkolnick's strike against the clubs' gender elitism must be recognized as a forceful blow in a battle to destroy the clubs' overall elitism...
Harvard merged with Radcliffe in 1974, and the final clubs have yet to follow the cue. This lag is no surprise; the clubs have never been on the cutting edge of equal rights. Sexism is the last bastion of the clubs' illegal elitism, and the gender barrier, like that against public school students, Jews, and Blacks, will tumble in its turn...
...Unfortunately, this type of elitism is not illegal. It's impossible to attack the final clubs on strictly legal grounds for charging money and choosing who they want--thousands of golf clubs, country clubs, and social clubs legally do the same thing. Financial elitism is protected by our laws, gender elitism...
Scholnick's complaint provides a crucial opportunity to send gender elitism on campus the way of religious and racial elitism before it. Yes, students should mount an attack on the financial and social elitism embedded in our society, our University, and our final clubs. Let us now confront sexism...