Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelist Noah D. Oppenheim '00, who is also a Crimson executive, said gender inequality on campus is not a problem...
Panelist Beth A. Stewart '00, president of the Undergraduate Council, who defined herself as a feminist, said she has not experienced gender inequality at Harvard...
...though, are a decade of pedophilia: Prince William, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Elijah Wood and Hanson look like fresh-eyed dough babies in comparison to the heroes of yore. "It's a reversal of gender roles," postulates Tse W. Lim '02. "Older men have traditionally young girls. Girls these days are liking younger and younger guys...
Meanwhile, rock festivals like Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and Lilith Fair bring out hundreds of thousands of kids we would have once called hippies. These kids aren't self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
Your article "Beyond The Gender Myths" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 19] quotes an educator who imagines that a Utopia can be created in which "sexual stereotypes don't shape education." This assumes that gender influences on parents, teachers, peer groups, media and writers about the subject of education have disappeared and that academic skills and interests are now present in pristine condition. As everyone knows, we have not yet reached this state. Single-sex education works because it gives girls a few valuable years in which to recover confidence and feel that they can make a difference in a culture that...