Word: genderism
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...upper middle class, and not speaking RP was a distinct disadvantage," she says. It's a common perception. According to the Department of Trade and Industry's Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2005 (published this June), accent was named as a cause of unfair treatment more often than race, gender or religion. "Students generally want RP," Hughes says. "Some want to sound like the people they work with - the way the majority of educated Londoners speak." He calls it "lazy RP," using less precision than a newsreader. So is lazy RP in the cards for me? Hughes has me read...
...selective colleges, but Harvard did not take part. Goldin and Katz’s study analyzes a wider range of cohorts than the two its namesake investigated. In addition to the three groups of four graduating classes, the investigators also included the Radcliffe Class of 1973 to establish a gender balance and the Class of 1988 as a test survey class. According to Ward, 30 to 40 percent of those who have received the online survey have responded. As an incentive for completion, study participants can vote for one of four groups that will receive a $10,000 donation...
...that the professor has published his panegyric to the penis, entitled ¨Manliness,¨ it´s hard to imagine that Mansfield was really born in 1060. (Compared to the luminaries of the early Middle Ages, after all, Mansfield's gender philosophy appears positively Cro-Magnon...
When you tell your fellow peers that you plan to be a Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, try not to get disheartened when they respond with a “huh?” And when your parents object to the title of your department, you can snappily retort that it’s an honors-only concentration. While the concentration is usually erroneously depicted as a haven for radical feminists, it is actually a close analogue of Social Studies. It’s safe to say that the number of jocks and Republicans is low to non-existent...
...fatally shot 25-year-old gunman Kimveer Gill, of Fabreville, north of Montreal. Anastasia Desousa, 18, of Montreal, was pronounced dead at the scene, although police would not confirm her identity. Police said Gill's car was found parked near Dawson. Investigators have ruled out terrorism and racial or gender targeting, and are searching for a motive in what seems to be developing into Canada's Columbine shooting...