Word: genderism
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...Double the budget of the Concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
...reason to deny funding to all-male finals clubs and fraternities. But to anyone who understands what it truly means to be a Christian, these two distinctions are not comparable. All-male groups are discriminatory because they exclude based on factors one cannot naturally change—such as gender. No matter how hard I try, I cannot naturally become a man, so I cannot join an all-male finals club or fraternity. The same can be said for groups that might include in its constitution a requirement that officers can only be of Asian descent, for example?...
Religion, unlike race or gender, is a choice—a difficult choice, certainly, but still a choice. Anyone can become a Christian, as HRCF’s constitution reminds us, by subscribing to the articles of the faith. Requiring that its officers affirm that they have made this choice, a choice that is open to all people, should not be misconstrued as discrimination...
...affirmation of the “universal visa” granted and taken away upon birth and death by “the consulate of the sky.” Past social movements have attacked the inequalities associated with being born of a different skin color, of a different gender, of a different economic class but never of having a different citizenship. I was born with the privileges of being white, male, and well-off, but the greatest privilege bestowed on me at birth was my U.S. citizenship. Today, a U.S. citizen, ceteris paribus, is worth more than any other...
...Lawrence F. Katz, and Dunster House resident tutor Ilyana Kuziemko, who wrote the study, said women now make up 57 percent of the national undergraduate population, compared to 39 percent in 1960. The study, titled “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” was published online by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and examines the reasons why females now constitute a majority of undergraduate students across the nation. According to the paper, the reversal of the college gender gap is due to “the persistence...