Word: genderism
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Many, if not most, well-meaning people in modern societies see education as the rightful engine for social progress. Underlying this belief is the modern conviction that merit—rather than characteristics such as birth, tradition, race, gender, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation—should determine advancement up the social “ladder” or hierarchy. Accordingly, the answer to inequality to which many schools, including Harvard, offer or aspire is need-blind admissions: If you are academically good enough, you will get in regardless of your financial status...
...because private equity—the field in which the Harvard Management Company president and board members are likely to come from—is a notoriously insular field (which usually does not include minorities or women). Hopefully recent events have since forced Summers to recognize that race and gender still play large roles in the way society is shaped...
Ultimately, Summers should embrace both ethnic and gender diversity as his personal goal. Although he has expressed a commitment to advance females at Harvard via the formation of the task forces, these initiatives are insufficient because they do not address racial or ethnic disparities. There is more work to be done. By including ethnic diversity in the goals of the task forces and by advocating for increased female and minority participation in HMC, President Summers will send a valuable message to the world about the importance of building a qualified and representative community. If Summers wants to instill confidence...
...results suggest that children above the 50th percentile of BMI for age and gender might benefit from prevention efforts,” she said...
Instead, she said that she proposes more emphasis on social work, stopping cross gender searches, and reexamining classification systems...