Word: genderism
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...Whatever day it airs, however, a more serious issue for the freshman drama is one of gender imbalance. Lights' core audience right now is young men drawn to the football. But that's precisely what turns off women, who saw the testosterone-driven football promos early on and ran the other way faster than a halfback outracing the defense. But the reality is that the show is a character-driven prime-time soap that happens to be set in the world of the high school football. "It's a show about young people under extraordinary pressure and the adults that...
...Determined to overcome the gender bias, the network has marshaled its marketing forces and mounted an aggressive campaign to save Friday Night Lights, which revolves around Dillon's new coach (Kyle Chandler) as he deals with the team and football-obsessed townsfolk. The first move was a schedule change to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. It's not Friday, but but it does take the series out of the path of American Idol, ABC's seemingly unbeatable hit that starts airing again Tuesdays starting Jan. 16. "This was definitely a defensive move," says NBC scheduling vice president Mitch Metcalf...
...eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First Aid and an entire section on criminal law. Testifying to the tenacity and endurance of Somalia...
...female president might not necessarily advance the climate for female faculty at Harvard, says Hopkins, who adds that a president’s understanding of gender issues, not their gender, is what matters...
...said that although the new president should not be chosen because of gender, he or she should practice what Zhu calls “traditional” feminine leadership characteristics, including horizontal coordination across Harvard’s schools, using emotional intelligence to handle crises, and relying more on open communication than hierarchical command...