Word: gendered
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...average American audience,” says Baum. “The feedback that the audience gave was really, really intelligent. Television audiences have become fairly savvy. When there’s a badly written scene, they let you know.” Thomason concentrated in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and was active in the Radcliffe Union of Students and the non-for-profit women’s organization, The Seneca, Inc., while at Harvard. She also co-founded the Athena Theater Company, which focuses on staging plays relevant to women with the goal of prompting discussion of women?...
...intensity really captures their inner passions.Although some minor elements are mislaid, “Bernarda Alba” succeeds on a very personal level. It captures the feeling of a dysfunctional family at home, with all its accompanying tensions, while also anchoring the characters in broader issues of gender and society. Above all, the play is an entertaining and compelling story, one that is worth seeing.—Reviewer Mary A. Brazelton can be reached at mbrazelt@fas.harvard.edu...
...mile race today. Every year medical personnel receive upwards of 800 runners who require attention; when temperatures spike, that number can exceed 1,700, according to an assistant commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, Nancy Ridley. Organizers will use hand-held scanners to record the name, age, gender, and medical status of every injured athlete. The information will then be available to event organizers and local hospitals. Family and friends will be able to inquire about a runner’s status at a kiosk near the finish line. The main purpose of such a system...
...line promotions," says Rachel Harker, one of the company's co-founders. And in Britain the line keeps getting higher, says James Davies of Hyperspace, the innovations division of the London ad consultancy Posterscope. On trial at the company's headquarters: a billboard that changes ads depending on the gender of the person standing in front of it. Davies says the demo gets it right 95% of the time. The billboard as a medium is changing rapidly too, as outdoor agencies transform static boards into digital light-emitting-diode (led) or liquid-crystal-display (lcd) screens that flash new images...
Given that much of society is largely unfamiliar with many of the challenges that transgendered individuals face, Harvard’s decision to amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity” is a bold and highly commendable step. Since the formation of the Transgender Task Force (TTF) in 1997, the group of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who advocate on behalf of issues of gender identity has pushed for such an inclusion in the University-wide non-discrimination code. On Tuesday, the University’s general counsel told the TTF that...