Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gender ratios remained the same as last year, with females comprising 48 percent of the admitted group...
...Gender-blind shuttle service. The free, after-hours pickup service the University provides responds far more quickly when women telephone than men, students report. Because the T closes earlier than most dance clubs, male students are often left with no easy way to return to campus. Gay men in particular are at high risk for gay-bashing, assault and hate crimes during the night. The shuttle service needs to be expanded to all students equally...
Transgenderism. While Harvard's non-discrimination policy covers race, gender and sexual orientation, among other categories, officials refuse to extend this provision to gender identity. Transgendered people should not have to fear potential discrimination in housing or from other students...
...figure of masculinity not so much past its prime as grotesque and overripened, the kind of colossus Rodin might have come up with if he worked in old Camembert instead of bronze. In short, Depardieu is just the kind of male to frighten an adolescent girl off the gender altogether. In this filmic universe he is the anti...
...same pitiable dependence and moral simplicity we find in five-year-olds. Such an attitude made sense perhaps in an era of male suffrage and "Help Wanted: Female" classifieds. Given the disabilities attached to womanhood in 1912, it was only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women at the time...