Word: genderism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agency was new and had a troubled political history. But Carter’s administration substantially increased NIE’s budget to fund research on the effects of race, gender, and social class on academic achievement...
Throughout her years of schooling—until, in fact, she earned her doctorate—she did not feel recognized as an academic because of her gender...
...turns very nasty very quickly. No matter the venue, the debate revolves around the same set of slippery questions: Do differences in data equal racism? Or could it be that blacks actually drive more recklessly or, in the case of schools, behave worse? Perhaps race is just incidental, and gender or class is the overriding factor. "This is not a simple matter, where the numbers speak for themselves," says Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. "In the past two years there have been five or six conferences on traffic-stop data, and there...
Women stop to ask directions. Men study the map. And those gender tendencies apply to personal finance as well as to road trips. According to the MONEY Magazine/OppenheimerFunds Women and Investing survey, released last week, about a quarter of men get most of their advice from financial advisers--the same amount who seek guidance mainly from magazines, newspapers and newsletters...
...family. Most everywhere else, the practice is a social stain. Yet for increasing numbers of Chinese, the issue isn't a matter of choice-but survival. China is facing an alarming dearth of young brides. Two decades of restrictive family-planning policies have resulted in a drastic gender imbalance-the country is missing 50 million girls who would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line and care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their...