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WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court kept it simple Wednesday: Harassment, plus an element of sex, equals sexual harassment -- no matter what your gender. In a decision hailed by gay-rights groups, the court defended the right of a Louisiana oil-rig worker to sue three coworkers for sexual harassment, even though all involved are men. "We see no justification... for a categorical rule excluding same-sex harassment claims from the coverage of Title VII," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court...
While Harvard ranks eighth nationally as a baccalaureate source of male Ph.D. scientists and engineers, it is only 17th for women, according to National Science Foundation data. The absolute ranking is not important because it is dependent largely on total enrollments. But the gender differences do matter. Yale, Stanford, Brown, Cornell and several flagship state universities all graduate relatively larger proportions of future women scientists and engineers, so it can indeed be done without loss of quality. These figures are based on Ph.D.s granted between 1991 and 1995, and thus refer back to college graduates of the late 1980s, when...
Among suggestions from staff were a simulation for inner-city students, greater financial accountability, a push for a greater gender balance among staff and a fall staff retreat...
...this we have to understand how the University works, what its role is in the larger society and what we think about the options we're given as we're prepared to join that society. So we need to talk about race, the economy, gender roles, cultural values and all kinds of other things. These can't just be things we study. But if teachers are doing all the teaching, and if the Harvard institution is allowed to manage us instead of the other way around, that's all we're going...
...Sunday night's meeting, members questionedCampbell about the lack of gender and ethnicdiversity among the candidates...