Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change, the Faculty Council, the Faculty's executive steering committee, reopened its discussions on the issue. After hearing the views of RUS officials and several experts on harassment, the Council debated a sweeping proposal, to establish a general harassment policy to address conflicts arising on the basis of gender, race, religious, sexual orientation or other factors. The plan stressed informal channels to handle complaints, but also called for the creation of a central office to handle grievances and disseminate information about harassment...
Just as importantly, the authors point out that biological deterministic dogma has falsely labelled various gender differences as facts. Men are taller than women, less emotionally dependent, more exploratory and able to orient themselves in open spaces, more visual and more reponsive to simple stimuli, and in general more successful. And the list goes on. But as the authors assert, these "facts" are simply the selective observations of scientists who wish to support their preconceived notions of a society divided along sex lines...
Occasionally, the authors can become heavy-handed in their rhetoric. In discussing the fallacy of biologically-based gender differences, for example, they assert that they "...will show that they [conventional sexist studies] represent a systematic selection, misrepresentation, or improper extrapolation of the evidence, larded with prejudice and based in poor theory...
Among Republicans, speculation about female vice-presidential nominees is purely that, since George Bush is not about to be nudged off the ticket. The Republicans, however, might have more to gain from having a woman on their ticket, since it is Ronald Reagan who is struggling to close the gender gap. Moreover, the Republicans might have an easier time picking a top-drawer female candidate. "We would be in a better a position than the Democrats," says Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 51, who heads the list of her party's female vice-presidential prospects, "because we have more...
...first female Justice endorsed the use of a new weapon by women seeking full equality in the legal profession. Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren Burger held that female attorneys may sue if they are denied a chance to become partners in law firms because of their gender...