Word: gendered
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...Take gender out of the equation for a second. Who would you rather watch play? The No. 6 team in the country which has a legitimate chance at progressing far into the NCAA Tournament and possibly even winning a national championship or a sub-.500 team that lost its national ranking early on in the season? A team boasting three of the top six scorers in its league, or a team that doesn’t even have one player cracking...
...while the choice is obvious when you ignore the sex of the athletes in question, once gender is reintroduced into the conversation, the fact remains that the majority of sports fans would rather watch a mediocre men’s team than a very good women’s squad...
...Summers, who tapped Faust to lead two gender diversity task forces after his comments on women in science two years ago, called her an “outstanding scholar” and “extraordinary academic leader...
Along with her Radcliffe deanship, Faust boasts credentials as an expert in the intellectual history of the American South focusing on issues of gender. She is, so this page tells us, a “scientifically-literate” administrator, a “trouble-shooter,” an “academic jack-of-all-trades,” and “very solicitous of the views and opinions of others...
Perhaps Faust will serve quite capably and admirably in the new administration at Massachusetts Hall. Perhaps her academic specialties will perfectly prepare her to write a new chapter in gender relations on the college campus. Yet we should not get ahead of ourselves...