Word: genderism
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Experts say jury selection in this case will depend less on gender, income or homemaking prowess than on the strictness of each juror's moral outlook. "The prosecution is looking for people who see the world in black and white," says jury consultant Donald Vinson. "Martha's lawyers are looking for people who, before blindly obeying a rule, ask how important it is." To help find the latter, Stewart has hired jury psychologist Julie Blackman, whose recent high-profile client Frank Quattrone, the banker charged with obstruction of justice, wound up with a hung jury...
This finding illustrates the promise and the perplexity of research into the biology of human sexuality, where mind, body and experience are endlessly intermingled. People find themselves turned on in obvious situations--slow-dancing together, seeing someone with a sexy body, finding a member of the opposite or same gender to be excitingly sharp-witted or funny. But carnal longings strike at surprising times too--in the wake of a victory by your favorite team (for men, anyway) or at times of fear or even after a tragedy, like the death of a parent...
...team had to tailor its treatment to be respectful of gender divisions as well...
Yale’s diplomas are written entirely in Latin (leaving Women and Gender Studies majors with “sexualis” printed in large print on their degrees). However, their degrees are still abbreviated...
...less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden have gone up 40% since 2001. Nevertheless, Swedish Migration Minister Barbro Holmberg last week vowed to expand Sweden's intake of asylum seekers to include people persecuted for their gender or sexual orientation. Britain, a prime European destination for asylum seekers with some 100,000 arrivals a year, expects to halve the annual figure in 2003. Tougher screening plus the closure a year ago of the controversial refugee center in Calais have helped. Opposition politicians, however, question the government's figures, saying...