Word: genderism
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...hour event, called “Taking Stock: Gender and Design,” was so packed that students were spilling into the aisles of Piper Lecture Hall, located on Broadway, across the street from Memorial Hall...
While University President Lawrence H. Summers’ recent comments on women in science have sparked a renewed focus on gender differences at Harvard, his name only came up twice during yesterday’s discussion—but the students challenged the panel of ten GSD faculty members to address the status of women at their school...
When one student asked for an explanation of this gender disparity, the panel members were initially silent, with one member asking, “Can you repeat the question?”, prompting laughter from the audience...
Larry Summers has learned a lot in the past few weeks about the problem of judgment on the basis of identity over merit. On the one hand, his critics are concerned that he is encouraging society to evaluate women based on their gender and not on their intellectual aptitudes. And on the other hand, Summers himself has been judged, at least in part, not on the value of what it was he actually said at that now-infamous National Bureau of Economic Research conference (in point of fact we didn’t even find out the content...
Anonymity on the Internet, and in particular gender anonymity on the Internet, has often been framed in a rather ugly light, marred as it is by media portrayals such as in the 2004 movie “Closer,” in which Clive Owen has a steamy romantic online rendezvous (can an online rendezvous really be steamy?) with someone he believes to be a woman, only to find out that it’s actually Jude Law. But this is anonymity nonetheless, and it is a powerful force in shaping who’s who on the net: when...