Word: genderism
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...documentary film screening sparked a discussion of female circumcision at the Women’s Center last night, with some students condemning the practice as promoting gender inequality while others argued that its cultural importance needs to be considered. Although female circumcision is internationally condemned as a human rights violation, some argue that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage. The film “Asylum,” released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father’s attempts to force her to marry an older...
...Harvard Medical School professor filed a lawsuit Friday charging the president and the chief of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—one of Harvard’s main affiliated hospitals—with gender discrimination, saying she endured years of sexist treatment which culminated with her demotion. Carol A. Warfield is seeking recovery for the “loss of her career, her income, her reputation, and all of the consequential damages that flow from these injuries,” according to the complaint filed at the Suffolk County Courthouse. Warfield, a leading physician known...
...Committee, has made a point of criticizing universities for maintaining ample endowment funds at the cost of financial aid, most recently requesting financial data from Harvard and 135 other institutions in January.The parents weekend event had its lighter moments, with Faust and Pilbeam drawing applause after a question about gender-based styles of leadership.“I worry about essentializing female traits—I mean I don’t think Margaret Thatcher worried a lot about being too masculine,” she said to laughter. “I’m very collaborative, I often...
...investment bank published a recent research report, called “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” that argued that improving female education would not only result in higher economic growth, but would also benefit future generations. The study also claimed that closing the current gender gap in the labor market could increase income per capita by 10 to 14 percent in these countries by 2020. —Staff Writer Prateek kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...this sly, wafting doubt is the greatest injury done. When perfectly able minorities must constantly disprove a default presumption of being unqualified for their jobs—that is a problem. When, to remedy racial and gender barriers in society, we conjure up new negative associations—that is a problem...