Word: genderism
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...Harvard, many students and faculty members say that while appointing a female Harvard president might have symbolic value, they just want the most qualified president, regardless of gender...
...committee searching for the next Harvard president has declined to comment whether gender will play any role in the search, according to spokesman John Longbrake. But the most recently confirmed list of candidates included at least seven female contenders among its more than two dozen candidates, including the female leaders of Brown, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Cambridge...
Playing “the gender card” only generates resistance against appointing women to leadership positions, the professor says, so she and others believe it’s more effective to lobby for particular female candidates with “quiet pressure” behind the scenes...
...discussion of female leadership in academia inevitably raises the specter of the Summers scandal. Harvard became the center of a nationwide controversy over the place of women in academia in 2005, after then-President Lawrence H. Summers suggested that intrinsic gender differences might be partly responsible for the low representation of women in the sciences...
...imagine a scenario where the press might try to make it out that a female candidate was chosen based on their gender but, having met with representatives of the search committee, I am entirely confident that this is not a motivating force in their decisions,” Kramer writes in an e-mail...