Word: genderism
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...furor over the secularity law was put into a new perspective. The debate over head scarves in schools has been raging since the late 1980s: the government says the display of religious symbols undermines the mission of public schools to educate without regard to race, religion or gender; Islamic officials counter that the law is really intended to target Muslims. The debate had become so partisan that much of French society was convinced that Muslims put their religious beliefs ahead of allegiance to their country. But the events of last week changed many minds. Thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims...
...crowd ranged widely in age, class and gender. Protesters toted posters labeling Bush a terrorist, a murderer and a dictator. Slogans ran the gamut of good taste, from the innocuous “No More Years” to the sign held by a bikini-clad marcher: “Give this Bush a Brazilian...
...When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing overseas. Already steeped in a socialist mantra that preached equality between the sexes, China invested heavily in women's sports far before Title IX?the U.S. government mandate to end gender discrimination in collegiate sports?began leveling the playing field in America. "In addition to good training, our women can eat bitterness more than women from other countries," boasts Wei Hongquan, a publicity official with the State General Administration of Sport. "That's why we are so strong in women...
Just calling myself a feminist felt cheap, though. Having never experienced acute discrimination for being a woman, I didn’t have a context for my budding feminism. While the suffragists of the First Wave marched for the vote, and the Second Wave feminists cried out against legal gender discrimination, there was no tangible Third Wave I could join. And too cash-strapped to burn my bras, I didn’t know how to wage my fight...
Finally, we have the Ol’ Boys’ Club Theory. Wall Street and Washington continue to focus on women’s gender instead of their agendas, workplaces neglect the needs of working mothers and discrimination is all too common...