Word: genderism
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...ticking biological clock for women is a real problem, then all members of society--men and women, the business world and stay-at-home parents--should be involved in discussing how best to balance work and home life. All parents should be supported in their decisions, regardless of gender. It's high time we stopped framing work-and-family discussions as women's issues. LORI EICKMANN Dublin, Calif...
Graham Professor of Gender Studies Carol A. Gilligan, Wiener Professor of Urban Studies at the Kennedy School of Government Katherine S. Newman and Professor of Law Martha L. Minow are members of the new committee...
...would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator who is the current president of WISHR. “That sort of discouraged me from going.” Liu is certainly conscious of the gender imbalance in the sciences, but she says the skewed demographics have not negatively impacted her experience...
...have more women faculty and graduate students, which helps because they can act as mentors to the undergraduates,” Kenen says. And the emerging prominence of women faculty has gradually altered course offerings in the department, she says. “The department takes questions of gender in the sciences quite seriously, and there has been a significant rise in courses relating to gender over the past 10 years as the faculty has changed,” she says...
Slowly but surely, Harvard’s teachers are moving toward matching the nearly even gender ratio of its students. Overall, the number of senior women faculty in FAS has risen from 38 (9.6 percent) in 1991 to 78 (17.6 percent) in 2001. But for those concentrations still wrestling with unbalanced gender ratios, the increasing number of female professors is just one stop on the road to gender equality...