Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meet informally as well. Not all community building needs to happen at formal functions. At last week's RUS meeting, women of all religions--from Hindu and Muslim to Christian and Jewish--came together to talk about how religion and gender intersect in their lives. We had not known each other before, but we were able to talk frankly and find support from gathering together...
...women coming! The percentage of women admitted to the class of 2001 hit a record high of 48.5 percent, up from 45.5 percent admitted last year. We applaud Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 and the entire admissions committee on continuing the long-standing trend of increasingly equal gender ratios and the necessary recruitment that has encouraged a larger talented female class to apply...
...special interests include the cultural origins of human dissection and the history of sexuality and gender, according to her Wellesley biography...
Steele described this phenomena as a "stereotype threat" that causes students to overcompensate in an attempt to disprove common misconceptions of race and gender...
When black and women students are faced with the issue of race or gender during tests, their blood pressures tend to rise. According to Steele, this physical change confirms that the issue of stereotypes causes agitation to the students, resulting in lower test scores...