Word: genderism
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...Reflections of a Department Chair,” Professor Stuart Schreiber, the former chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, discusses recent efforts to enhance the department’s gender diversity...
...course, the biggest controversy on campus has been the furor over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on gender and science. But the problem of “overdoing it” was also evident last week after Jada Pinkett Smith’s “heteronormative” comments at Cultural Rhythms. I am not arguing that critics of both Summers and Pinkett Smith are wrong or raising unimportant issues; to the contrary, the recent discussions at Harvard about gender and sexuality are immensely significant within and beyond the gates of Harvard...
There is nothing wrong with criticism; to the contrary it motivates us to think more and work harder. However, we do a disservice to important debates about gender equality and sexuality when we take our criticisms too far. We must be willing to debate any idea, regardless of how abhorrent it might seem, and we must do everything we can as a community to facilitate that sort of debate...
Saturday’s discussion, meanwhile, was mainly concerned with analyzing the problem, which, the professors argued, stems both from Harvard’s process of granting tenure as well as an underlying trend of gender discrimination...
...biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64 pointed to “small, even invisible” trends of gender discrimination as the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed...