Word: genderism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...almost anyone: "If a few oddballs or eccentrics run, I don't mind it," Bell says. "It's time for a people's insurrection." But organizers still intend to weed out extremists: during registration, candidates must click a box confirming that they won't discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, and that they will behave honestly and selflessly. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
Fourth issue - that is, its fourth attempt at sparking a conversation about sex, gender, and sexuality within Harvard's gates and beyond...
...Latino and queer communities are only a few of too many examples of individuals being marginalized at Harvard. While each incident may represent a minor, isolated instance of bigotry, collectively these events reveal a deeper, systemic problem: Discrimination still laces our society and crosses lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and creed...
...claim that these few years spent apart might hinder a boy’s ability to relate to a girl, and vice versa, once he or she reaches “the real world.” But it must be understood that schools alone are incapable of determining gender relations. When schools segregated men and women before, such segregation was not the reason that men were allowed to feel superior to women or that women were taught to feel inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within society as a whole, and the schools...
...With the educational gap between boys and girls closing, it is precisely the wrong time to revert back to single-sex education. Girls are finally becoming more comfortable in a mixed-gender classroom, and it is high time to fully break the vicious cycle of discomfort in a coeducational environment...