Word: genderism
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...Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence. Even in shows in which the gender balance is more equal, such as Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the emotional core seems to reside in the females...
...groundbreaking new study by three sociologists shows that diversity training has little to no effect on the racial and gender mix of a company's top ranks. Frank Dobbin of Harvard, Alexandra Kalev of the University of California, Berkeley, and Erin Kelly of the University of Minnesota sifted through decades of federal employment statistics provided by companies. Their analysis found no real change in the number of women and minority managers after companies began diversity training. That's right--none. Networking didn't do much, either. Mentorships did. Among the least common tactics, one--assigning a diversity point person...
Consultants on diversity insist that the training they give has value. R. Roosevelt Thomas, founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity, says corporate America must first redefine the word. "Diversity means differences and similarities," he says, be they in race, gender or corporate culture. He teaches executives to focus on skills and not familiarity. "In a foxhole, I want someone who can shoot," he says. "I don't care where they're from. Some folks have to be reminded of that...
...track of how many and what exactly are sexual assault cases.”THE OLD FILING CABINETThe lack of statistics can complicate efforts to offer resources.RESPONSE staff say they receive about 25-35 calls and drop-ins each semester, but have no way of characterizing the callers by gender, class, or other measures.Kukunova, the group’s president, opened the old filing cabinet in the corner of its Lowell office.The records for most years since RESPONSE’s founding in 1983 showed a number of calls “in the 30s. A few went...
...Gender will always be a difference,” says Claudia Goldin, explaining why she has continued to come back to studying women in economic history.“No matter how many of these differences begin to fade, I don’t think that they’ll ever go away entirely,” she says.What Goldin sees, though, is that today these different ways of life often result from the different choices men and women make, rather than from discrimination.For her next project, the Lee professor of economics will study men and women?...