Word: gendered
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...women’s center, childcare for Harvard workers, more tenured female and minority faculty, and the creation of a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies department: independently, these are all worthy objectives, and there is nothing wrong with a student group demanding them of the University. The link to Larry Summers’ remarks, however, is tenuous at best. When the Coalition tied into their list of demands the threat of a “community vote of no confidence” in Summers’ leadership, it implied that the president is directly and individually responsible for these demands?...
Using Summers’ remarks on gender as a jumping-off point, the ten speakers at yesterday’s rally addressed a number of grievances, from the lack of a Women’s Center at Harvard to divestment from PetroChina...
...Coalition draws from a number of other feminist, activist, and academic groups on campus, including the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the Socialist Alternative, and the Harvard College Journal of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality...
...single most significant impact of University President Lawrence H. Summers on my department during my time as chair was that of enlightenment, in a profound way, on gender issues. He dissected and criticized the process by which we were analyzing our candidates for appointments and promotions. He researched our methods to a degree that was stunning, and my reporting of his methods to our department had a profound effect. He had to be taken seriously initially if for no other reason than the enormous effort that he put into this undertaking. After months of discussions at numerous, consecutive Faculty meetings...
...dissent from the Mass. Hall party line without fear of reprisal. These are questions about an attitude that some call anything but collegial towards faculty belonging to already underrepresented groups, from former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to members of the Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. There are questions of real input into the planning of Harvard’s future, whether regarding Allston, the Curricular Review or university governance as a whole...