Word: gendered
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...grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies 10. However, economics, philosophy, and quantum mechanics classes all count toward the mathematics concentration, and writing a good proof is similar to writing a good legal argument. Though official data isn’t released, anecdotal evidence suggests a gender ratio that could only be described with the technical terminology “sausage fest”. Despite the politics surrounding math and gender, men in math are much less likely to be hostile to women than a little scared of them. Abandoning your sexuality at the door...
...Prime Minister of Britain in 1979, Gro Harlem Brundtland served three terms in Norway from 1981. Germany's glass ceiling was smashed last year with the election of Angela Merkel. India has had a woman leader, as have Bangladesh, New Zealand, Israel and Chile - why not France? Because in gender as in so much else, French politicians talk a better game than they play. To be sure, in May 1991 President François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only female Prime Minister, Edith Cresson - but she was tossed aside in less than a year. Jacques Chirac's party...
Michele Alliot-Marie Minister Of Defense "It's a great victory" that no one at her macho Ministry even talks about her gender, she told Le Figaro last month; competence alone counts, and, by defending her budget, she's won the respect of her ground troops. If Sarkozy wins next May, she has the clout in the party to assure her a top post in his government. Nicole El Karoui Math Professor Few postgraduate degrees have the cachet of one earned under her aegis at the Ecole Polytechnique or the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap...
...TIFFANY NETWORK Katie Couric settles her digitally slenderized posterior into the anchor chair warmed previously by gentle white men. The newscaster promptly strikes a blow for gender equality by conducting her all-grown-up softball mainstream-media interview with the President. You go, girl...
...point isn't that wall color deserves to be given equal due in the headlines. Rather, we just want the media to recognize when it's being fed a carefully timed and calculated diversion. We are as easily distracted by gender politics as students are by those fluorescent lights. Schools are opening around the country this week, and people are talking about teacher gender rather than teacher quality...