Word: genderism
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...including being the highest-earning black American on a game show (for winning $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”) and co-authoring a Princeton Review book called The Girls’ Guide to the SAT: Tips and Techniques for Closing the Gender Gap—propelled her to the winners’ circle...
Augusta National is still vulnerable to outside pressure from professional golfers, among others. Professional golfers have the power, and the responsibility, to boycott Augusta National—and the tournaments that are held there—in order to end gender discrimination...
...recent statement by Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of Citigroup, that he supports the acceptance of women for membership in the elite Augusta National Golf Club marks a small victory for women’s lobbying groups who have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to end gender discrimination at the club. Augusta National is the site of golf’s annual Masters Invitational tournament, and Weill is the first member to speak out against the club’s policy. Weill’s courage should serve as an example to other members of the club and to the wider golf...
Although Augusta National and other private clubs have the legal right to restrict their membership along gender lines, it is morally repugnant to do so. To base membership decisions in any institution along gender lines, whether it is explicitly stated in membership rules or not, is discrimination pure and simple; the entire golf community should push for an end to Augusta National’s reprehensible admission criteria...
...said the money will fund new research on “the epidemical paradox” that immigrant children often have increased resistance to certain disease, gender relations of immigrant children and identifying the “skills and sensibilities” that make some immigrants more adaptable to new environments than others...