Word: gendered
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...many years ago when Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges were separate entities. In some ways, Harvard has made big strides in eliminating the gender divide on campus. The College’s freshman class is composed of more female students than men for the first time in Harvard’s history, and women arguably play a more active role socially and extracurricularly on campus than ever before. But in the crucial and delicate arena of tenure, Harvard is lagging behind—and the extent of the problem is embarrassing...
...gift can be none other than the remake of The Stepford Wives. Though the film has a lot of difficulty presenting women as anything but bimbo-blonde housewives or bull-dyke businesswomen, and thus fits nicely into a shameful tradition of post-feminist narratives that ultimately regress to gender stereotypes and thinly-veiled Victorianism, Dad can still learn a few lessons from the film. For example, don’t turn your wife into a sex robot because she is occasionally bothersome. Most importantly, Christopher Walken is actually a machine, carefully programmed by Glenn Close...
...Brooks has proven once again that he’s one of the best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name a gender after you”) to damned clever (“lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”), Brooks is almost guaranteed a best original screenwriting nod come Oscar time. Oddly, he’s able to do this in with one of those heart-warming...
...faculty in the natural sciences remained a constant 14 while the total number of tenured faculty grew from 151 to 158. The number of women will fall to 13 while the total number of tenured professors in the sciences will grow to 162 by Jan. 1, 2005, according to gender statistics from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...every faculty member approved of putting an increased emphasis on gender in the tenure process...