Word: genderism
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...Iron, a work that contains some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In the mid-'90s, he came forth with autobiographical accounts of his youth, and then came Disgrace (1999), the tale of an arrogant white academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee, now 63, quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us asking: Now that Coetzee...
Ilana J. Sichel ’05, co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), said that while the end of Isis’ lease will not affect “99 percent of women at Harvard,” the space imbalance perpetuates gender inequality at the College...
...It’s a different feeling going to a space that is not yours and could never be yours because of something that is out of your control,” Sichel said. “Because of your gender, you can’t have a space that’s yours that’s not your bedroom, even if you wanted...
...study commissioned by the president of Princeton University, Shirley M. Tilghman, has found that female faculty members in the sciences and engineering are regularly subjected to gender discrimination and feel like second-class citizens in their departments. Like many things in academia, the climate among faculty sets a tone that filters down to graduate and undergraduate students. Sexist behavior that makes women feel unwelcome in the sciences is deplorable, and it is reassuring that Princeton has devoted attention to combat this systemic problem...
...self-perpetuating lack of diversity in sciences is a problem that all universities need to work towards solving. And while Princeton has taken the lead, Harvard—and schools across the country—should watch closely for models of how to promote gender diversity in the sciences...