Word: genderism
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...simplest a microscopic retrovirus and at its most complex an indicator of societal patterns ranging from prostitution to the unequal distribution of wealth and pharmaceuticals.What was once ignorantly considered solely a gay disease now has now been shown to be biologically nondiscriminatory with regard to gender, race, or socioeconomic status. And while this serves the benefit of breaking down the stereotype surrounding homosexual males, it also opens the door to public ignorance of who is the most at risk today. For instance, the Chicago Department of Public Health reported that African-American women accounted for almost 80 percent of newly...
...January remarks substantially understated the impact of socialization and discrimination, including implicit attitudes—patterns of thought to which all of us are unconsciously subject,” Summers wrote in the letter that was released on Thursday along with the transcript. “The issue of gender difference is far more complex than comes through in my comments, and my remarks about variability went beyond what the research has established...
...contending that a greater number of men than women are capable of extraordinary brilliance in the sciences.• “socialization and patterns of discrimination,” two separate theories arguing that men might simply prefer science more than women and that claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that was released a month later, shed scant new light...
WHAT'S IN: GENDER BENDERS...
...that Democrats would attack him for his opinions as a judge, particularly a 1991 dissenting opinion in which he defended a Pennsylvania law that said a woman must notify her husband before she has an abortion. Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department application and wondered why Alito said he was opposed to Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s promoting reapportionment, which was designed to ensure fairer representation of urban minorities...