Word: genderism
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Because most corporations have policies that prohibit gender discrimination, membership of company officers at Augusta could be viewed as a conflict. Such leading lights as Sanford Weill of Citigroup and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway are members. So is Kenneth Chenault of American Express, one of a handful of black members at the Georgia golf club. Sources tell TIME that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently became a member. General Electric is still paying the fees for retired chairman Jack Welch, according to papers filed in Welch's divorce proceedings. None of the golfing chiefs are talking: members are required...
...challenges facing Harvard women. Notably, none of these women is a member of a women’s group, none is a women’s studies concentrator. While I would never argue that membership in a club or concentration gives a woman unique claim to representing her gender, I think that when a publication seeks commentary on physics, it interviews someone who studies physics. Yet the people who have studied women were ignored: where was the Radcliffe Union of Students? Women in Science at Harvard and Radcliffe? The Coalition Against Sexual Violence? Regardless of how one feels about...
...Department of Education began an investigation in August into the College’s new sexual assault discipline procedure, acting on a student’s complaint that the policy violates the Title IX gender discrimination statute...
...complaint, filed June 4, argues that the corroboration requirement would bar sexual assault victims—the vast majority of whom are women—from adequate grievance procedures, violating federal guarantees of gender equality in education...
Harvard has a legal obligation to provide women students with an education free from gender-based violence, harassment and intimidation. This means that when a student reports being the victim of sexual misconduct, the College must, at a minimum, take steps to ensure that this serious form of gender discrimination on campus is responsibly redressed and sufficiently deterred. This cannot be accomplished without baseline standards guaranteeing students a thorough investigation and meaningful right to be heard...