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...Harvard has been mastering the art of educating exceptional young minds in the classroom for nearly four centuries now, but it has only begun the process of integrating an extremely diverse collection of students—from different genders, races, ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic classes—fairly recently, so work remains to be done. This drive for an independent, student-driven, fully inclusive, gender-neutral community center offers an opportunity for Harvard to continue its natural evolution, to continue its task of producing the best possible women and men to serve our republic. As Higginson...

Author: By Mike L. Zuckerman | Title: A Vision for the Future | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

Santhi Soundarajan has a message for Caster Semenya, the South African track star whose gender has sparked an international athletics row: "She should not abandon the fight." Soundarajan lost her 2006 Asian Games silver medal in the 800 m after failing a gender test. "I come from a small village and had no one to fight for me," Soundarajan said in an interview with TIME on Aug. 29. "I hope Semenya will come out of this better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender and Athletics: India's Own Caster Semenya | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...Asian Games officials to strip her of her medal. Soundarajan was later diagnosed with AIS, or androgen insensitivity syndrome, a condition in which a genetic male is resistant to androgens, the male sex hormones that include testosterone, leading the body to appear externally female. "I cannot comment on the gender test as I am not a doctor, but the incident surely robbed India of a world-class athlete," says P. Nagarajan, her coach, who recruited her in high school. "An incident like this is enough to ruin a girl's life - and it did ruin her life and career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender and Athletics: India's Own Caster Semenya | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...late for Semenya. "She should not let them take away her medal," Soundarajan says, or allow one test to determine her fate. "She is a woman and that's it, full stop," Soundarajan says. "A gender test cannot take away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender and Athletics: India's Own Caster Semenya | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...When Uganda announced its plan to hand out female condoms, it got plenty of support. "The No. 1 issue for women is to be able to negotiate," Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity in Washington, tells TIME. "The main issue was the desire for women to be able to say, 'O.K., you're not going to use yours, then let's use mine.' " In the fight against AIDS, say the advocates, any little bit helps. True, studies about the efficacy of female condoms are inconclusive. But, they insist, women, especially in Uganda, need as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms | 8/30/2009 | See Source »

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