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...President George W. Bush. Speaking two days before Bush's Inauguration, Thomas dismissed the central part of Bush's proposal for reforming Social Security, saying personal-investment accounts "don't really solve the problem." He then tossed a few political bombs, musing that Congress might link retirement benefits to gender because women live longer than men, or might let blue-collar workers retire earlier because "there are certain occupations in which you're pretty used up by 65." He rounded out his comments by declaring that the politics of the House and Senate would soon render the President's plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel in the Ranks | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...influential social critic and early feminist; in Rye, N.Y. Starting out as a novelist, she befriended Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan and developed an interest in the burgeoning women's movement. In 1971 she wrote Man's World, Woman's Place, the first of six nonfiction books on gender and power that brought her national acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 31, 2005 | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...biological factors determine comfort level in combative situations, then gender differences could partially explain the underrepresentation of females in elite academic science, Kosslyn said. But he noted that “one’s comfort level in combative situations might have nothing to do with innate factors...but instead might reflect socialization...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs React to Summers | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

Indeed, while we are firmly opposed to censoring academic discussion on controversial topics, citing innate differences to explain gender inequalities can be a dangerous approach—especially when the comments are made by the president of a university that has such a problem with female faculty tenure rates. We want our University president to lead the discussions on ways to overcome gender inequalities—not to offer ways to rationalize them. As the letter from the Standing Committee on Women told Summers, “your efforts to ‘provoke’ your audience...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Sticks and Stones...? | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

...decades, women have been making dramatic advances in science and technology fields while negotiating a minefield of gender stereotypes and obstacles created by ignorance,” Kim Gandy, the group’s president, said in a statement. “It’s time to remove the barriers, and one of them is Lawrence Summers...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summers: ‘I Made a Big Mistake’ | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

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