Word: genderism
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...rather, they gave students a way to publicly disagree with Pappin and to affirm their conviction that BGLTQ students are valuable members of the College community. The signs remind us that while Harvard is a fairly welcoming place for BGLTQ students, we still attend a university that excludes gender identity and expression from its nondiscrimination policy. We still live in a society that allows Donald Rumsfeld and friends to blackmail the Law School into allowing Judge Advocate General recruiters on campus. Perhaps the “safe space” signs are not quite as trivial as Smith would have...
While solutions are elusive, the pathological arc of PDs is predictable. They tend to show up after age 18, striking men and women equally--though gender may influence which of the 10 disorders a person develops. The disorders are grouped into three subcategories, and of these, the so-called dramatic cluster--borderline, antisocial, narcissistic and histrionic disorders--is the best known. But it's the borderlines who cause doctors--to say nothing of families--the most headaches...
...there something about our psychic makeup that makes one gender more vulnerable to some disorders than others? Or does it have more to do with societal roles? And if environment is the determining factor, will the illnesses that beset each sex change as society evolves...
...Starting a few years ago, the majority of law students in America have been female. Given that many more women are now going into law, it seems appropriate for the leadership at law schools to reflect the gender diversity of their student bodies. Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor, demonstrated three years ago that there was a bias against women in science at MIT by proving that the school had systematically discriminated against its female faculty in terms of salaries, office space, research and positions of leadership. She explained in a New York Times interview that “having women...
...university with such a long history of being an exclusive institution for the “good ol’ boys,” a female leader at one of Harvard’s major schools would be a monumental step toward a more gender-friendly Harvard. Summers should strongly consider his opportunity to make an important and revolutionary statement to the world by choosing a woman to be the dean of Harvard Law School...