Word: genderism
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...quarter-century earlier, in 1981, Skocpol filed a grievance against the University for gender discrimination when her tenure application was denied. Then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky and then-University President Derek C. Bok agreed to review her case, and, after she’d spent four years at the University of Chicago, Harvard offered Skocpol tenure. She accepted the offer and has been at the University ever since...
What I've done--forget gender--is still a great thing. I almost won the pole the last two races. I have led the last two races, and I've never really done any oval racing before. Then there's the fact that the ratings went up so high, which helps all the other teams as well. We've gotten some interest from so many areas that haven't been interested in Indy cars before. So I think that I'm deserving of good things. I'm not going to say exactly what I think I deserve because realistically...
...quarter-century earlier, Skocpol filed a grievance in 1981 against the University for gender discrimination after her tenure application was denied. Then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky and then-University President Derek C. Bok agreed to review her case, and after she spent four years at the University of Chicago, Harvard offered Skocpol tenure. She accepted the offer and has been at Harvard ever since...
Some injuries tend to cluster at different ages. Doctors report seeing a lot of heel problems in kids 9 to 12 years old, elbow problems in kids 10 to 12 and knee injuries in kids 12 to 14. Gender also seems to play a role. Girls, for reasons that are not clear, are more likely than boys to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)--a tough ribbon of tissue that holds the knee together. "Twenty years ago, it was rare for someone under age 15 to have ACL surgery," says Dr. Daniel Green, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital...
...Bonpasse, look at Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz, who adopted the names Clinton and Kerry only during their respective husbands' gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. If a wife who doesn't take her husband's name is a political liability, Bonpasse says, it's hard to believe the fight for gender equality has come far enough...