Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might as well come from different planets--and can't we all just get along? But it is a message with enough of a truthful core that it struck a popular nerve at a very particular time: the early '90s, when it again became permissible for people to discuss gender difference. For this, thanks must be given to Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which perched on the New York Times best-seller list for close to two years before Mars and Venus came...
...result is a fascinating portrait of gender-based misconceptions. There's a reason, for example, that the company isn't called Pink Moon. "We tested names with boys," says Deyo. "And when we showed them Purple Moon, it was just, like--bam!--'That would be for girls. Because purple [not pink] is girls' favorite color...
...most see this year's trend toward more concrete forms of protest as a positive step for gender equity at Harvard...
...addition, many of the larger extracurriculars have witnessed gender disparities in leadership during recent years...
...terms of selection criteria, the most basic thing to be aware of is...[the need to be] critical of all subjective measures, making sure they are in fact gender- and race-blind," said Kavita Kacholia '98, co-president...