Word: genderism
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When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at Tehran's Najdad Institute this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar sitting in mixed circles. Last month the language school split the group by gender, with men and women meeting on different days. Now plans are under way to move the women's classes to a separate building, to eliminate altogether the possibility of illicit mingling. "It feels," says Mohsenian, "as if we're all incapable of behaving like normal people and need to be regulated at all times...
...Over the last few months, various branches of the Iranian government have stealthily worked to roll back social freedoms, re-institute gender segregation in some public academic institutions, and impose repressive Islamic codes that have been ignored here since the late 1990s. Because the Iranian system is composed of ministries with overlapping mandates and multiple security apparatuses that often act upon their own initiative, it is difficult to tell whether these measures signal a government-wide crackdown, or the individual efforts of radical government appointees emboldened by the Islamic conservatism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...Middle East is actually a war against international terrorism and the Iranian regime, which is a threat to all of the West. One day the world will recognize the importance of that fight and Israel's essential contribution. Aurélie Simonet Geneva, Switzerland The College Gender Gap Barbara Ehrenreich's essay about boys goofing off at college while girls are overachieving was nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care to be stereotyped that way back then...
...your words, what does the website's tagline "Geek to Live" mean to you? It's about not worshiping technology for the sake of technology, but it also goes into the gender stuff on the site. Most tech sites that you find online are written by men and have a male appeal. Lifehacker has a feminine, girl-geek spin to it, but there's no pink or pictures of lipstick holders. I think that women - there have been studies - are interested in how technology can enhance their lives and not just for the cool factor. That's what Lifehacker...
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