Word: genderism
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...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...
...important activities of the university,” Bok said in the statement. “We all owe her a great debt.” In 1980, during Bok’s first stint as Harvard’s president, Skocpol filed a grievance against the University for gender discrimination after she was denied tenure. Bok and then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky agreed to review Skocpol’s case and offered her tenure after she spent four years at the University of Chicago. Skocpol accepted, and became the first woman to be tenured in Harvard?...
...creation of a freshman seminar that takes students on a University-funded trip to Kyoto, Japan. Adolphson also teaches Historical Study A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” and a new course, Japanese History 220, “Warriors, Monks, and Courtesans: Class and Gender Perspectives on Premodern Japan.” In the past decade, Adolphson has authored two books, “The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan,” which was published in 2000, and “The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic...
...thanks to women artists and scholars in the '70s who proved that art was women's work too and could go places the guys hadn't taken it. Nudes with a woman's point of view, works that use household arts like weaving, videos and photographs that ask what gender is all about in the first place--there's plenty of that around now, some of it even made by men, all of it indebted to the feminist explosion of three decades...