Word: genderism
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...Gender Differences 40% Percentage of U.S. women who closely followed recent news stories on tornadoes in the South and Midwest, compared with only 25% of men. A new study finds that women focus more on stories about weather, health and safety 40% Percentage of men who closely followed stories on tension between the U.S. and Iran; 27% of women tuned in. Men generally favored sports, politics and international affairs in the study...
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...cruelly forced women to choose between their faith and educational future. But such a claim presumes that women are in fact making an individual choice to wear their headscarf. While many certainly claim to, such choices neglect the backdrop of a strongly patriarchal and oppressive religious climate in which gender-biased practices constrain rather than enable a woman’s autonomy. By limiting women’s capacity for self-reflection and free action, this backdrop of religious conservatism has robbed too many women of the ability to meaningfully contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent...
...manage a rice mill); the able women (Noriko and Kazuhito's mother and sister and grandmother) cook and clean while babysitting Kazuhito's mentally handicapped younger brother and nursing both his bed-bound grandfather and his great-grandmother Ei, the clan's 97-year-old matriarch. "Beyond age and gender," reflects Noriko, "here was the model of a true family, a genuine family...
...show with the most nuanced take on gender now is actually a sitcom: 30 Rock. Through comedy-show producer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)--a woman middle manager in an overgrown-boys' field--it has dealt with topics from misogynist swear words to the gap between baby-boom and Gen-X feminists with a gender-consciousness that's unashamed but unafraid to make fun of itself. (In one flashback, teenage Liz sues her high school to become placekicker on the football team; she flubs a kick and cheers, "Yeah! Feminism!") Liz isn't powerful enough to be in a mafia...