Word: genderism
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...Evelynn is the leading scholar in the world on the subject of race, gender and science,” Gates says. “[Her appointment] is a real coup both for Harvard and the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...fairly moderate, reasonable person, I was not at first insulted by the Augusta National Golf Club's decision not to admit women members. However, after reading "Getting Teed Off" [Business, Sept. 16], I changed my mind. The position of the club that gender diversity doesn't carry the same imperative as ethnic or racial diversity is despicable. How nice for the club to be the one to categorize which types of discrimination are acceptable and which are not. Its members display the ignorant beliefs of the white male establishment. They have never been on the other side of such demeaning...
DIED. PATSY MINK, 74, Hawaii's irrepressibly liberal Democrat and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress; of viral pneumonia. Mink opposed the Vietnam War and championed gender equality. After 24 years in the House, she had just sailed through a primary vote--one week before her death...
...one’s peers—on the atmosphere at Harvard. Yet the sad truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would assume that Harvard demanded constant academic brilliance in order to remain within its exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once...
...Harvard team can successfully extend their research from rabbits to humans—and Atala believes that this is possible—the potentially disastrous psychological effects of being forced into a gender that is not one’s own could be avoided. For now, though, Atala says he is taking the research one step at a time. “It’s a very complex issue,” he says. “That’s why we are targeting this kind of therapy, just so that we can have other options...