Word: genderism
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...Faust says, "I'm not the woman president of Harvard. I'm the president of Harvard." She adds that it would be "wrong not to acknowledge" that her gender "has tremendous significance...
Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who tapped Faust to lead two gender diversity task forces created in the wake of his comments on women in science two years ago, praised the selection of the Radcliffe dean...
...late, characterized the academic politics of our university. Drew Gilpin Faust, who has since migrated from her university chair in Philadelphia to keep house at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will exemplify—as Harvard’s first woman president—those inversions of traditional gender roles that she is so fond of studying...
Along with her Radcliffe deanship, Faust boasts credentials as an expert in the intellectual history of the American South focusing on issues of gender. She is, so this page tells us, a “scientifically-literate” administrator, a “trouble-shooter,” an “academic jack-of-all-trades,” and “very solicitous of the views and opinions of others...
...Correction: Last Friday’s editorial "President Drew Gilpin Faust" mistakenly said that in a 2001 interview Faust said that Harvard’s support for issues of women, gender, and sexuality were "not the strongest." Faust, however, was speaking not of Harvard’s support for these issues but of the strength of the academic field of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Harvard. The Crimson regrets the error...