Word: genderism
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...Though gender-neutral housing is currently available for students who identify as transsexual, Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson says the College hopes to regularize the rules across the Houses and create a more transparent process for obtaining gender-neutral housing...
...road to gender-neutral housing has been both lengthy and controversial, with logistical hurdles accompanying the challenge of garnering enough support for the initiative...
...input from a wide range of opinions. This doesn’t mean it will be easy. But such qualities will prove essential as Faust tackles the challenging scientific concerns at Harvard, chooses deans to work with on these and other important questions, and addresses other arenas such as gender and minority issues—including those in the sciences where they are far from settled. I am still amazed by the level of resistance to women that the Physics Department demonstrates, to the extent that no senior woman has yet significantly guided the departement, or even the growth...
...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...them from the moment our doors opened. I was caught off guard, however, at the cynicism that greeted the opening of the Center this year on the part of some, who wondered aloud about the relevance of our primary mission (to raise awareness of women’s and gender issues, and to celebrate contributions by women that challenge, motivate and inspire) in the midst of so much progress for women, both at Harvard and in the world at large...