Word: genderism
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...highest positions held by a woman at Bell Labs.“I have certainly been extremely lucky in my career in that I don’t feel like I have been hampered tremendously,” Murray says. “Obviously there is unconscious gender bias in this society, so of course I’m affected by that.”But while vice president, she says her division’s budget and staff were slashed amid multiple reorganizations of the Labs, taking a significant toll on physical sciences research there.Bishop credits Murray with working...
House: Eliot Concentration: Sociology with a completely arbitrary secondary field in The Classics Hometown: Brookline, MA Ideal Date: After a semester in a WGS course, I can safely say it’s a date that observes all the expectations of traditional heteronormative gender roles. What you look for in a girl/guy: An inappropriate sense of humor. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Standing outside the bar/party drunk dialing/texting every boy I’ve ever kissed. [Note: If you’re ever subject to one, promptly disregard.] Your best pick up line...
...Wrong. Vermont (and the District of Columbia, whose council voted unanimously that same day to provide equal rights to all couples married outside D.C. regardless of gender composition) was not creating a new institution called "gay marriage." Rather, it was correcting a historical, legal and moral error, one that restricted the institution of marriage to couples that possessed a certain arrangement of genitalia...
...children and avert them is nothing new and has always been somewhat controversial. Traditionally, PGD has been used to screen for and subsequently deal with diseases and disorders like Tay-Sachs disease and Down syndrome. Thus far, the use of PGD has even gone so far as non-medical gender selection; in a recent survey, 42 percent of 137 surveyed IVF-PGD clinics reported using the practice. But the act of changing how a child looks based on arbitrary desires represents a new quandary altogether...
...drag king, dressed in black slacks with a pink stripped long sleeve shirt, and a drag queen, in a black and pink top with gold heels, taught students the art of gender-bending yesterday at a workshop sponsored by the Women’s Center, the Trans Task Force and the Queer Students and Allies. The presentation was part of a senior project by Lisa J. Miracchi ’09, who said it was an opportunity for the three groups to collaborate. Miracchi said she chose this month to hold the workshop since it is “Quapril?...