Word: gendered
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These relationships horrify some feminists. "It fits in with traditional economic patterns and gender roles," says Pamela Smock, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. For men, she says, "this is one of the biggest examples of hedging your bets that I've ever seen." But women who have tried them say the arrangements offer them perks too. "I do this to save money," says Veronica Verve, 28, who moved to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2004 and since then has lived with four different men in exchange for cooking their meals. "I like to be mobile...
...have sufficient access to daycare and do not receive the same financial support that their colleagues at other schools get for their children’s tuition.And many female professors say they are especially concerned about what they call Harvard’s lack of attention to gender equality when it comes to child-bearing.STICKER PRICEWhile schools including Princeton and Yale subsidize half of the tuition costs for their faculty members’ children—at these schools or another undergraduate institution—Harvard offers no tuition discounts to professors’ progeny.According to Lisa Martin, chair...
...social activities, religions are still defined by different, often inherently contradictory beliefs, and it would be absurd for members of a religious group like the Asian American Christian Fellowship to be led by someone who did not subscribe to Christianity. People often forget that while groupings like race, gender, nationality, and class are defined by accidents of biology and geography, religion is defined more concretely by what a person believes to be true; there is nothing wrong with the founders of an organization decreeing that their successors must share their beliefs, as long as dissenters are given the right...
...Citing stringent federal privacy laws, the CIA would not reveal any identifiying information about the dismissed employee - including their length of service or whether they were an operational spy or analyst, for example, or even their gender. As a result, it was not immediately possible to seek comment from the individual...
...read an advertisement for a “rally for transgender equality” that took place in front of the Science Center yesterday afternoon. The rally, organized by the Transgender Task Force, occurred a week after Harvard announced that it will include the phrase “gender identity” in its University-wide non-discrimination policy. A crowd of over 200 people attended the event, according to Noah E. Lewis, a co-coordinator of the Task Force. The event was intended both as a “celebration” of the policy amendment...