Word: genderism
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...weighting” the responses by gender only marginally changed the results...
TIME: Where do you think this gender revolution is going...
...just that kind of early-warning leverage that cancer doctors are starting to exploit. Their latest strategies take advantage of the fact that some cancers actually show a gender preference. Women who smoke, for example, are three times as likely to develop lung cancer as men who light up, and scientists at Cell Therapeutics found to their surprise that the reason for the difference was estrogen. In the presence of that hormone, which circulates in higher levels in women, lung cells are exposed to more of the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. Harnessing estrogen's ability to speed up some metabolic...
...that he failed to anticipate “the way that certain kinds of speculations would be taken.” But Summers did not back away from his controversial remarks completely. He emphasized the need for “the most vigorous possible debate” in discussing gender issues and said that both popular and unpopular viewpoints must have an opportunity to be vetted. Summers also stressed the need to ensure that employers are “fishing in the largest possible lake” when they are looking for women leaders. “Those who deny...
Where President Lawrence H. Summers argued for the exploration of gender differences in scientific terms, Mansfield leaps into the realm of cross-societal analysis with his self-conscious “political incorrectness” concerning gender roles, and an insistence that a co-ed trait be defined by old, dead men. No matter how many Erica K. Jallis and Lauren A.E. Schukers—both recent Harvard Crimson presidents—grace this campus, it appears that one of Harvard’s eldest statesmen remains blind to the changing times...