Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors of the journal, "F/M," said that it will provide a forum in which women's voices may be heard and perspectives on gender issues may be presented by both men and women...
Brandt's joint appointment in the History and Science Department and the Medical School's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health allows him to teach both undergraduate and professional students about the values and ethics implicit in modern science and medicine, including issues of gender and sexuality, he says...
Brandt's next project will be a book on the history of cigarette smoking, asking why people smoke and how it got to be popular, considering the issue in terms of class and gender. For instance, he says, in the 1920s, smoking was a feminist issue--Radcliffe women rioted because they weren't allowed to smoke and Harvard men were...
...George Leyva Junior High in San Jose, the new computer teacher, Irwin Maloff, helped organize an all-girl computer club and quickly attracted 20 enthusiastic members. Says Maloff, an avid computer buff with three daughters: "Girls have been shortchanged for years." Teachers eager to bridge the computer gender gap will soon be able to turn for advice to The Neuter Computer, a guidebook developed by New York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls...
...Stockton (Calif.) Unified School District, Computer Educator Jim Greco has hired women computer teachers, screened software for gender bias and put out the word that computers are no longer strictly boys' toys. Says Greco: "We're telling girls that they don't have to be geeks or nerds to like computers...