Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both 1971 and 1989 recommending target levels of women and minority faculty members, the number are still disgracefully...
Mitby's opposition to the council amendment banning discrimination against the transgendered--people born as one gender but who live as the other--apparently sparked the hate letter he received...
Phyllis Rosser, author of a 1989 book titled The SAT Gender Gap, said girls tend to perform better on algebra and computation questions while boys score higher on spatial reasoning and word problems...
...want to disseminate the idea that male virginity is acceptable, we have to move away from our historical obsession that defines virginity as a strictly feminine phenomenon. We must start defining virginity in a gender neutral sense. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the foremost authority on the English language, demonstrates the entrenchment of our association of virginity with females. According to the OED, a virgin is "an unmarried or chaste maiden, distinguished for piety or steadfastness in religion." The OED's second definition of virgin as "a woman (esp. a young woman) who is, or remains, in a state...
...spoke of her childhood experiences, when she had desperately wanted to play baseball, but was denied the opportunity to do so at every level of her high school career because of her gender...