Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Reagan continues to be viewed less favorably by female than by male voters on just about every question that the pollsters raise. Contrary to popular belief, the gender gap yawns wider on economic than on foreign policy issues. For example, large majorities of both sexes-71% of men, 64% of women-express at least some confidence that the President is dealing effectively with the Soviets on arms control. But only 53% of the women believe that the economy is improving, vs. 65% of the men. On Reagan's strongest issue, inflation, the division is even more striking...
First came unisex hair styles, then unisex clothing. If the National Organization for Women has its way, unisex insurance will be next. Feminist groups and several powerful Congressmen are pushing two separate bills in Congress to end the traditional practice of establishing insurance rates on the basis of gender, which often results in higher premiums or lower benefits for women. Says Kathy Bonk of the Legal Defense Fund: "We have to take the profit motive out of sexual discrimination...
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...student input into the FDO's official view on Third World student needs and concerns. A Black student needs to know that there are certain areas in Boston to which he or she cannot go. Recently, in response to a woman student's claim that ethnic identity and gender were an important part of one's "Harvard experience." Dean Henry Moses replied. "I do not think that ethnic identity or gender were an important part of every piece of one's life...
...convinced that Professor Klein is a superb teacher, a scholar of genuine accomplishment, and a colleague of rate generosity. She is also one of the few faculty on this campus who appears to take seriously the study of gender as a dimension of social organization and politics. The denial of promotion, gartioularly to a bon-tenured position, seems to us to call into question the University's commitment to the hiring and promotion of women, to the rigorous study of gender, and to high quality teaching. At the very least, given her record, it reminds junior faculty that putting time...