Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earlier this month, 54 percent of California voters approved Proposition 209, which prohibits state and local governments from using racial or gender preferences in hiring, promotion and college admissions...
...male-to-female ratio in the aggressive, hunter-filled government department is 61 percent to 39 percent, whereas the male-female ratio in the English Department is exactly the reverse--39 percent male, 61 percent female. I don't pretend to know what this means, if anything, about gender differences. I leave that to the psychology majors. Just a little food for thought...
...People will be able to make a decision based on qualifications, not gender," Haynes said. "If you feel gender is a qualification, then include it in your list...
...worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls conducted only days before the election, practically every gender, racial and age group favored Clinton except for households with incomes over $75,000. The latter group constitutes about 12% of the country. This is not good news for the Republican future...
...problem is that Republicans tend to be white men, and Clinton's informal quota system makes positions for white males scarce. If the President needs to depart from his racial and gender formula to accommodate some Republicans in his government, he should feel free to do so. The gain is worth...