Word: genderism
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...jury of five white men and one white woman deliberated for less than four hours yesterday before deciding against a female employee who attempted to charge Harvard with racial and gender discrimination...
...pleased with today’s ruling,” University Spokesman Joseph Wrinn said in a press release. “It supports what we have said from the beginning, that racial and gender discrimination were not a factor. Employment at Harvard is based on the specific work skills and work history applicants bring to specific jobs. We have always believed that to be the case and today the jury has agreed...
Jurors sided with Harvard’s attorney, Richard J. Riley, who argued yesterday that Goodwin’s race was unknown to those doing the hiring and that gender was not even an issue...
...think you can take gender aside rather quickly,” Riley told the jury. “There are six positions in this case. Five positions were [eventually] filled by women, all were decided by a woman...
...gender equity issues surrounding President Summers’ recent comments, in addition to the Allston planning and curricular review, have been discussed openly and frequently in recent months at GSC meetings. Advanced graduate students certainly have experienced “life under Summers’ leadership for four years,” and using the phrase “hearsay and anecdotal evidence” to cheapen the well-informed and thoughtful opinions of the graduate student body was unhelpful...