Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proposition 209 prohibits using race and gender as considerations in public hiring or contracting, and, consequently, in admissions at state universities, effectively ending affirmative action programs...
...most closely watched electoral contests last week was not between partisan rivals but over the future of affirmative action programs in California. Proposition 209 on the California state ballot gave voters the opportunity to ban preferences based on race and gender in public education and in state business dealings such as hiring and business contracts. It passed by a healthy majority--54 percent of the California electorate supported...
Washington Post reporter Dan Balz said he could sum up the entire presidential race, as seen by American voters, in 10 words: "The country's OK. Dole's pretty old. There's a gender...
...this with a great deal of gender pride," Sherr said. "But the question remains: If women are so powerful, why aren't we in power? And what do women want...
...report in the current Nature Medicine, the two sexes showed a striking difference in their responses. While the women were still generally pain-free three hours after having their teeth pulled, the males had no such luck. Their relief was slight and lasted only about an hour. No comparable gender difference in pain relief has yet been found with the more powerful and widely used opiates such as morphine and codeine...