Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invited to apply for a place in this environment, provided their research is sufficiently cutting edge and their gender is male...
...Radcliffe officials conduct secret talks with Harvard about a possible merger between the two schools, the Bunting's single-sex tradition could expose the institute to lawsuits under federal gender-equity laws...
While Ring says the company discussed thepossibility of admitting women to the cast at theJanuary meeting, no changes were made. But isthere a chance for gender parity in the Pudding inthe future...
...year that began with caricatures eventually produced some defiant icons. Thanks to Charles Ruff, we saw more of a powerful man in a wheelchair than most of us have in our lifetime. Gender stereotypes tumbled as Clinton was declared the country's first female President, the first black President, all empathy and soul with just a whiff of victimhood. Many women winced at a scandal that began with a lovestruck Valley Girl gossiping to her treacherous friend; by year's end those images had been diluted by some other women who took the stage: Cheryl Mills, all of 34, with...
...there is another theme to Powell's work, it is an unfailing fascination with characters who live on gender's edges. Apart from the sexual rebels she dressed in her two recent films and in Orlando (based on the Virginia Woolf novel about a heroine who switches sexes back and forth), Powell also designed costumes for Neil Jordan's The Crying Game. "I'm attracted to projects that involve taking risks of some kind," Powell says, "and ones that might upset some people...