Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, the system had to be further modified to accommodate women, who for the first time were integrated into the residential House system along with the dorms in the Radcliffe Quadrangle. At that point, the prospect of combining gender ratios with quotas for certain characteristics made the master's choice system simply unfeasible, and the present lottery was established...
...only does the signal promise to do away with opening lines and rejections, it may prevent gender gaffes. Four available wave lengths identify a bearer as being heterosexual, male or female homosexual, or interested in swapping partners with another couple. What if the Flashingee is only a 2 on a scale of 10? Easy, says Carmela Brunet, the 1959 Miss Germany who is the owner of Promotions et Qualité "Just turn off your machine until he is out of range...
When Geraldine Ferraro was picked as Walter Mondale's running mate, Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. representative to the United Nations, praised the choice as "just marvelous." A decade earlier, as a political science professor at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick wrote a pathbreaking study of gender and power in America (Political Woman, Basic Books). At a meeting with TIME editors last week in Dallas, Kirkpatrick offered an intriguing assessment of the Ferraro controversy and the future of women in American politics...
...licensing fees, and many overseas clinics also buy sperm-separation materials from Gametrics. The Gametrics procedure generally costs between $225 and $350, and three or four inseminations are often needed before pregnancy occurs. Customers come to these clinics for a variety of reasons. Many already have children of one gender and wish to ensure that their next child will be of the opposite sex. Families with a history of certain hereditary diseases have a medical reason for sex selection: some genetic disorders, including hemophilia and a devastating form of muscular dystrophy, primarily affect males. There are also cultural motives...
...Carson helped test the Gametrics method at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. Although early results seemed encouraging, she says, "the final figures were insignificant." In their testing, Reese researchers found that the Gametrics sperm-separation method did not raise the concentration of Y sperm high enough to influence gender...