Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about chest pain than for men and whites with identical symptoms. After subjecting the data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race. As U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, who happens to be an African American, told the Washington Post, "Blacks are 40% more likely [than whites] to die from heart disease, and this could be one factor...
...include anchorpersons, soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears panty hose...
...attitude is bubbling out of that old female hormonal swamp, powered by new research and, at least in preliminary form, fresh perspectives on the gender-bifurcated human condition. There are signs of a growing acceptance of the female body with its signature cycles and turning points. Some midlife boomers are finding ways to celebrate the menopause, while a generation of "grrrls" is coming of age, with a new view of the menstrual period as an emblem of primal female power. At the same time, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology--that men are innately more aggressive, more promiscuous...
Five Houses-Dunster, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop-placed restrictions on the gender or class year of students they would accept as transfers. Dunster, for example, will not accept applications from male students who will be seniors next year...
...restrictions, several House administrators said, are meant to help achieve gender balance in the Houses...