Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand somewhere in between. I've been pleased with my life at Harvard as far as gender is concerned and have never once felt that my being a woman has denied me any opportunities or impeded my academic progress. Students here, I like to think, are on a level playing field regardless of their gender. And on the basis of observation, I believe my own experience has been hardly unique...
...feminism is the expectation that women be treated equally to men, there's still work to be done. That work should be a gender-blind community effort. The discussion last Thursday was useful because men sat on the panel and because it reached men in the audience...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). If they are intended to be support groups for women seeking advice and guidance, excellent. I know women who have been helped by having access to such a comfortable environment. But the problem with RUS is that it limits the discussion of gender equality--the most basic tenet of feminism no matter how you define it--to a discussion most often involving women only. If men and women can agree that we are all equal, surely students of both genders can agree to work together to ensure that equality really exists on campus...
...Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5): It frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
...feel advantaged because of my gender on this campus," Stewart said...