Word: genderism
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...tenure has not been a quiet one, nor one unscathed by controversy and political vendetta. Rather, Skocpol’s career as a scholar has been tumultuous since its nascence, marked by several prominent confrontations with University administrators. In 1980, she filed a grievance against the University, alleging gender discrimination when her tenure application was denied. She had described Harvard as “the most arrogant university in the Western world,” but was eventually granted tenure after administrators reviewed her charges of prejudice...
...Harvard, several powerful all-female student groups (I’m not talking about social organizations in this area) exist, such as the 300-plus member student group Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB). Though groups like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace...
...when she was denied tenure in the Sociology Department—where she had been an associate professor for five years—Skocpol alleged sexual discrimination, citing her gender as the reason why the department’s eleven male members turned down her candidacy...
...seems, though, that personality and not gender or discipline may have halted Skocpol’s plans...
...Jimmy might be a kind of blond Boitano, while Chazz is from the butch, Elvis Stojko school. But the enmity is surely a gender-bending version of the 1994 feud between Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. In the movie, skating's criminal underside is personified by Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a borderline-incestuous brother-sister pair whose long-skate routine has the theme "Forbidden Love," with Stranz skating as JFK and Fairchild as Marilyn Monroe. Arnett and Poehler's turn doesn't quite match Baron Cohen's as the French driver in Talladega, but Arnett gets points for smarming...