Word: genderism
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...concern this week over the Radcliffe dean’s “strong feminist bent” and the manner in which she would make personnel decisions. Stephen H. Balch, president and founder of the Washington-based group, said that he feared that Faust would push to use gender and perhaps racial criteria in hiring and tenure decisions. “The greatest worry”, Balch said in a statement, “is that as president, Faust will further ratchet up the pressure on Harvard’s great scientific research centers to subordinate personnel decisions...
...refer to advanced research as ‘obscurantist’ is a screen for ignorance. And it is an odd sort of “hen house” that has so many roosters. Most research projects at the Institute have nothing to do with gender. After having read this opinion piece, that is perhaps a shame...
...system by which transsexual students can obtain gender-neutral housing will be updated beginning with next spring’s housing lottery, the Committee on House Life (CHL) reported at its meeting yesterday. In collaboration with the Space Assessment Committee, a separate group charged with evaluating available housing, CHL’s subcommittee on gender-neutral housing recently formulated a list of all the suites in each of the 12 residential Houses that are suitable for gender-neutral living. The basic criterion for a gender-neutral suite calls for each bedroom within it to have a lock on its door...
...once warned her, "This is a man's world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be," ascends to what is probably the most influential job in higher ed. After former Harvard president Lawrence Summers caused an uproar two years ago by suggesting genetic gender differences may explain why few women attain top science jobs, he asked Faust to head an effort to recruit, keep and promote women at Harvard. Evidently Faust took that assignment to heart...
...their affair, her delicately constructed self-delusion collapses, or rather explodes, taking everyone nearby with it. Director Richard Eyre has an eye for thorny romance: his last film, 2004’s “Stage Beauty,” wrapped Claire Danes and Billy Crudup in questions of gender identity and theatricality in the dying days of male monopoly on the English stage. This story is more conventional, rather like “American Beauty” meets “Blackboard Jungle,” but Eyre succeeds in keeping the film engaging where it could have felt...