Word: genderism
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...immigrated from El Salvador in 1982. She terms the small slights that alienate women like her--the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions--microinequities. She worked mightily to rise to director of European strategy at Cisco Systems but recently abandoned that role to become director of global gender diversity. Through a program called Girls Get IT, Cisco is trying to rally interest in technology careers among girls by funding workshops at urban schools and in poorer countries around the world. "It's fantastic," Allwood says. "Cisco is building a talent pipeline, and I get to feel valuable...
...nominee. It expects to spend, along with its allies, several million dollars painting Alito as a right-wing judicial activist who will continue to chip away at or perhaps even overturn the right to an abortion; roll back civil rights and liberties, especially in the realms of race and gender discrimination and crime and punishment; and permit religion to encroach into the secular arena. In a moment of surprising candor, Alito provided new fodder for his critics last week, telling Senators that the high court may have gone too far in recent years in keeping the church out of public...
Anthropologists, psychologists and others have begun looking more closely at these issues, seeking the roots of ambition in family, culture, gender, genes and more. They have by no means thrown the curtain all the way back, but they have begun to part it. "It's fundamentally human to be prestige conscious," says Soka's Lowe. "It's not enough just to be fed and housed. People want more...
Harvard economics graduate student Emily F. Oster ’02 has collected and analyzed data linking the gender disparity in China—where males are more prevalent than females—to the hepatitis B virus. In a paper that will be published in the Journal of Political Economy, she showed that mothers who carry hepatitis B are 1.5 times more likely to bear a boy instead of a girl. “Countries with more hepatitis have higher sex ratios [male to female] at birth,” she wrote in an e-mail. In most parts...
...Paraguayan children dropped from over 600 to 50 annually after Paraguay instituted initiatives to help poor mothers and began to monitor and restrict the adoptions. Bartholet cited other benefits of transnational adoption, namely that the system exposes the world to injustices and detrimental situations in other countries, such as gender discrimination in China. “Adoption is an amazingly mind-opening experience for the parents. It makes them less racist, more globalist, and more willing to adopt even older children,” she said. The two also discussed issues such as the age of adopted children, the importance...