Word: genderism
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...step higher, establishing a master's program too. Interestingly, most of the applicants at many of these programs are women: 70% at West Virginia University; 80% at Michigan State. Jay Siegel, a director of Michigan's school of criminal justice, speculates that female students are drawn to forensics because gender bias still limits women's opportunities in other sciences. Polls also suggest that women more than men identify crime as one of society's most pressing concerns...
Give David E. Kelley credit for one thing: he's the one male producer in Hollywood not willing to cede gender issues to women. Judging by girls club (Fox, Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.), his button-pushing-women-lawyers follow-up to his button-pushing-woman-lawyer serial Ally McBeal (canceled last season), we will have to pry gender issues from his cold, dead fingers...
...easier to walk the line between girl-positive feminism and silliness with little-girl superheroes than with grownup lawyers dressed like Britney Spears circa 1999. More problematic, girls club is so self-consciously about, y'know, women's stuff that almost every story defines the characters in terms of gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss the X chromosomity of it all, Jeannie even sues on behalf of a woman whose ob-gyn passes out face first into her during an exam...
Since women’s heavyweight rowing became an NCAA sport seven years ago, its popularity has blossomed. For many schools, it has served as a perfect solution to the gender equity issues raised by Title IX, a reply to that persistent issue—what will be the women’s football...
...women who reads the script, Sasha Weiss ’05, feels the dance is especially relevant to the Harvard community. “Dance is a great medium to explore gender issues, especially at a very traditional, patriarchal school.” Tanhehco agrees: “I hope that this piece might make people think more about the way women are treated at parties or club situations as well as in general, and also show that there is still a need to think about the inequalities that exist …This isn’t something that...