Word: genderism
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...national figure in the field of women’s studies. She led the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s studies program for nearly five years, and in 2001 she became the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute, a research center focusing on gender issues...
Pharr said that Radcliffe’s own researchers could inform the University’s emerging initiative. She cited as one example Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, a psychologist who has studied gender disparities in attitudes toward mathematics. In online tests that ask subjects to categorize various pictures and words, Banaji has found that females associate “math” with unpleasant stimuli much more readily than males...
...surveyed other women in MIT’s School of Science—and found that there were only 15 female senior faculty members, compared to 197 men. The survey led to the creation of a Committee on Women Faculty in 1995, tasked with studying gender discrimination at MIT, which Hopkins chaired...
...Hopkins, what constitutes “science” in studies of gender differences is an open question—one that has been answered with both “discouraging” arguments and “meaningful” debate...
...cites several female psychologists, including Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji and Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke, whose research has demonstrated that gender variations are too small to explain the differences in men’s and women’s success in the sciences...