Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panelists said gender discrimination still dominates outside the classroom...
Wilson also noted specific gains in gender equality within the Harvard community. "We must take full recognition of the progress that has been made." she said...
Echoing Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, who presented a proposal for an Institute for the Study of Women and Gender to the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA) earlier in the afternoon (see story, page A-1), Wilson said Radcliffe needs to study not just women, but the "gender lens...
...drive home because D'Amato is among the most creative politicians in America. There are few constituencies he won't court, often doing some good in the process. In 1992 he began what he calls a "lonely fight" to increase funding for breast-cancer research--and reduce his gender gap--tapping Pentagon money (almost $900 million so far) for the research. In 1993 he bucked his party and backed Clinton on gays in the military; last week a leading gay-rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, was mulling a D'Amato endorsement. And in 1996 D'Amato held hearings exposing...
...omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson and Monica Lewinsky. Perhaps the four-letterization of America was not an unalloyed blessing, and the handing of artistic freedom...