Word: genderism
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...nearer to the downtown offices of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP), an organization she founded after learning that Georgia had one of the highest teen-pregnancy rates in the U.S. G-CAPP teaches girls and women that they have authority over their bodies and that gender equality is essential to strong relationships. Fonda launched it in 1995, while she was still with Turner. "It took me a while to apply those lessons to myself, but subliminally we teach what we need to learn," she says...
...Even though women are outnumbering men in undergraduate programs, it doesn’t mean they are achieving equality in the workforce,” Gault said. “There is still a gender wage gap. For a woman to earn as much as a man with a bachelor degree she would need a professional degree...
Assistant Professor of Sociology Prudence L. Carter, who has done work on the sociology of education while at Harvard, suggested that such continuing gender-based discrimination may shape female...
Finally, Spelke concluded that there was evidence against innate gender differences in cognition. “There is a mountain of evidence,” she said...
Hopkins added that she wonders if Title IX—the provision of the 1972 Education Amendments outlawing gender discrimination—”is not the only option...