Word: gender
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Questions of gender will also arise later, when the court considers head on, for the first time, whether affirmative action is appropriate to remedy employment discrimination against women. In addition, the Justices will review a court-ordered promotion plan for blacks imposed on Alabama state troopers. The cases will be closely watched because the high bench has yet to define completely its views on affirmative action. "The permissible scope is unclear," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "The cases are being decided one by one." In a major church-state dispute, the court will decide whether Louisiana violated...
Consider "Sonnet for a Father and Daughter," remotely Plathlike in subject. This fringe anger piece describes a woman whose father beats her because she has sex, inappropriate behavior for her ostensibly because of her gender. "Papa Don't Preach" said it better--and it rhymed...
...like abortion (both oppose it), but neither has hesitated to exploit the other's weak points. Boosalis has tried to tie Orr to the Reagan Administration's unpopular farm policies, while Orr has pounced on Boosalis' proposals for restructuring property taxes as "devastating" to senior citizens. Few Nebraska voters gender an issue. When Baptist Pastor Everett Sileven jumped into the Republican primary and argued that female leadership "is a sure sign of God's curse," he finished a weak fourth, with only 2.1% of the vote. For a time Republican State Senator John DeCamp threatened a write-in candidacy...
...famous as a leader of the women's movement, many of the new candidates avoid feminist labels. They play the political game by traditional rules, rising through the party hierarchy. Their presence in elections has become so commonplace that voters have almost ceased to notice it. "I think the (gender) issue has been neutralized," says University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Sittig. "The Nebraska candidates had established themselves long before this election. I think people see them as career politicians." Irene Natividad, head of the National Women's Political Caucus, agrees: "There are more women in the political pipeline than...
Stimpson, who opened up the discussion in "Changing Gender Roles, Past and Present," called the introduction of women's studies in college curricula "one of the most profound intellectual revolutions in the last part of the 20th century...