Word: genderism
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...recent study by researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has revealed significant gender differences in the effect of aspirin on men and women. Aspirin is recommended to people who have had or are undergoing a heart attack, according to Julie E. Buring, principal investigator of the study. The study, which will be published in the print edition of the New England Journal of Medicine later this month, found that aspirin can reduce the risk of stroke in women, but has little or no effect on the risk of heart attack. The opposite is found...
...name, and the Dems held a similar event monthly anyway. But rather than an indication that meaningful links are impossible, this experience should serve as a striking reason why campus political groups should seriously reconsider the way they pursue and think about diversity—whether of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, or even ideology...
...experience, people who feel directly affected by issues—whether it be of public policy, race, gender, class, sexual orientation, or something else entirely—tend to favor opportunities that allow them to work directly on those particular issues. On the other hand, people who feel less directly impacted by such specific issues are likely to respond to more abstract notions of the value of political participation and to take greater interest in studying and analyzing the political process...
...While political groups like the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Institute of Politics, the Dems and others would have trouble mimicking the appeal of single-race or single-gender groups, they would do well to look to examples of initiatives that have successfully drawn students who generally avoid political groups to invest in their cause. The Student Labor Action Movement, for instance, has rallied members of groups who have been traditionally under-represented in political organizations; groups focusing on AIDS, prison reform, poverty, housing policy, and divestment from Sudan have achieved similar results by taking direct action on political issues...
...Manliness is a challenge to a gender neutral society,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, in an interview aired this weekend to promote his recent book, “Manliness”. In the interview, shown on C-SPAN 2’s BookTV, feminist writer Naomi Wolf pressed Mansfield on his opinions about gender. Mansfield argued that manliness is a virtue, which he defined as “confidence in a situation of risk.” “Women don’t seek out risk...