Word: genderism
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While last year’s early pool was the first in Harvard’s history to accept more women then men, the gender divide tipped back in the opposite direction this year. Females made up 46.3 percent of the early admit pool, similar to the rate for the Class of 2007.Fitzsimmons said the decrease was the result of normal fluctuations in demographics, which he said also accounted for a slight increase in African-American (up 1.8 percent from last year) and Hispanic admits (up 1.1 percent). The regional breakdown of accepted students remained stable...
...evolution of democracy has been a long and, at times, painful process. In the last millennium governments of the people have managed to eliminate unjust voting restrictions based on race, property and gender. Now, we stand on the brink of true equality among the citizenry with only one obstacle still blocking the way: age restriction. According to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, only American citizens who have reached the age of 18 years possess the inalienable right of suffrage. By disenfranchising the seventy million citizens under that age, we as a nation relinquish our claim to be a democracy or even...
...could reasonably expect a candidate to argue against, say, 24-hour library access or student input into the College’s Allston expansion, candidates made the unfortunate decision to try to differentiate themselves based on experience (or lack thereof), self-perceived personal capacity for leadership and even gender and house affiliation; the Teo P. Nicolais ’06-Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 ticket never hesitated to point out that vice-presidential candidate Mannapperuma ’06 was the only female candidate for either position, and also the only Quad resident in the running. Outside...
Niki Cairo’s inspirational story features Keisha Castle-Hughes in the role that made her a star. As Paikea, a young girl of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, Castle-Hughes confronts issues of tradition, family, race and gender in her struggle to prove herself to her grandfather. Free and open to the public. Wednesday at 7 p.m. Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis...
Langdell Professor of Law Martha A. Field ’65, who was one of the first females to be tenured at the Law School, said last month that “the [gender] imbalance among assistant professors is definitely a problem which I think the school is aware of.” But Kagan noted that the total number of tenure-track faculty is so low that “it’s hard to tell anything meaningful about male-female ratios...