Word: genderism
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...change in these women has already reshaped voting patterns. Their new attitude helps explain why the gender gap that had worked to the Democrats' advantage since Ronald Reagan was in office narrowed sharply in last fall's congressional elections. For the first time in more than a decade, the Republicans had near parity with women. President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove believes a shift among women with children under 18 was a major factor in the G.O.P.'s historic victory in last year's midterms, in which the President became the first Republican in a century...
...praises the field of journalism because “there was never any gender...
...name of his unfaltering conservatism, Mansfield has attacked grade inflation at the College, scoffed at political correctness and lambasted traditional liberal values, such as affirmative action, gay rights and, most recently, perceptions of gender...
...Women drivers - you know, those annoying motorists who actually stop at stop signs and indicate when they're turning - may be the scourge of petrolheads everywhere, but they have one group of fans: insurance companies, which charge women lower premiums based on the safer driving record of their gender. But perhaps not for much longer - if the European Commission has its way. The Commission wants to eradicate sex discrimination in insurance and pension products, and could have draft legislation to do so in place by the end of July. For women, that could mean higher car premiums. But it could...
...Chino Moreno were a girl--and he'll probably take this the wrong way--he would be Christina Aguilera. The nu-metal that Moreno yawps as lead singer of Deftones is the masculine obverse of Aguilera's teen pop; both are gender-and age-specific modes of musical expression about sex, self-doubt and self-pity. Both tend to be pretty awful. But Moreno, like his Dirrty doppelganger, is perceived as being a cut above his peers, mainly because he can sing and occasionally because he can think...