Word: genderism
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...Gender Gap I was intrigued to see Nancy Gibbs' article on affirmative action for boys, "College Confidential," but a bit disappointed that Ms. Gibbs avoided the greater question about what is happening to boys [April 14]. Rather than question what might be behind the slide in boys' achievement - and what the long - term effect might be if boys continue to fall behind - the article instead turns to ponder what this all means for girls. It is a sad commentary when even an article about boys' academic troubles seems uninterested in the roots of the problem. Malia Blom, Director, Boys...
...conference in Vegas, and we were in the line for the buffet. We told the pregnant woman who was running the buffet that we were coming from a psych conference and she asked us what the gender of her baby...
...female professor and was denied access to Lamont Library because she was a woman. When the now syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returned to Harvard yesterday to speak at the Kennedy School of Government, she said she was surprised that Harvard has made more progress in gender equality than the rest of the country. “I thought we’d have a woman in the White House before Harvard had a female president,” she said. In her speech on women, news, and politics in the Taubman Center, Goodman probed the issue...
History, however, suggests the opposite. Political success is separate from economic success, and culture causes many of the gender and racial divides in our country...
...with no children who worked full-time and were from 40 to 64 years old—that is, beyond child-bearing years—men averaged $40,000 a year in income, while women averaged $47,000.” Lifestyle choices are behind the “gender gap,” not sexism. Unless Clinton outlaws pregnancy, I doubt her presidency will affect women any differently than Obama’s. Most Americans can succeed regardless of their race or gender. In many cases, culture makes all the difference. If Obama and Clinton want to make history...