Word: genderism
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...about balancing a career and a domestic life are quite conflicted. But my belief about the right of each woman to make her own individual choices—about career path, family life, or what clothes to wear tomorrow—without the responsibility or the constraint of her gender is steadfast. And the effort to contextualize, and thus compartmentalize, every action a woman makes within the broader framework of “women’s roles” often obscures this individuality.It seems that the tendency to see any action taken by a female as indicative of some...
...rooming issue to the front and center of the council’s agenda.By a 31-to-1 margin, the council backed Kouskalis’ five-page position paper proclaiming “the right of every student to live with roommates of his or her choosing, regardless of gender.”In fact, a 1993 policy allows for co-ed rooming in rare cases “where the configuration of space ensures a large degree of privacy.” But the policy says, “House Masters are free to deny such requests...
...protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class Day speaker, in an e-mail.It wasn’t the first time Greenhouse felt the sting of gender discrimination.Greenhouse, who grew up in Hamden, Conn., and was editor of her high school newspaper, joined The Crimson in her freshman year of college. She was frequently barred from the surrounding all-male Houses’ dining halls—Adams, the House closest to the newspaper’s offices, only allowed...
...prevent SIGs like the HGLC, which today has over 4,000 members, from continuing to lobby for changes on Harvard’s campus.For instance, the HGLC was involved in the ten-year-long, and recently successful, push to change Harvard’s non-discrimination code to include gender identity and expression.Parry also says the HGLC has a significant interest in helping to develop GLBT studies programs at the University’s various schools.Members of the Harvard University Muslim Alumni also focus on undergraduate outreach, but with a different goal than HGLC’s activist work, says...
...from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it’s up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol and more like her deserve places on the Faculty, both because...