Word: genderism
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...between. Overall, I could not have asked for a more intelligent and inquisitive population of students, better facilities in which to teach them or better faculty advisers and colleagues. I was fortunate to have made brilliant and generous friends in just about every category of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual persuasion, as well as a few who have yet to be persuaded. I felt continually grateful to be at a supportive institution rather than the university at which one senior professor made his advisees tar his roof, or the one at which an underemployed faculty member...
When diversity at Harvard is discussed, issues of male-female ratios among students tend to be raised only in relation to social life: single-sex clubs and the like. But despite Harvard’s balance of undergraduate men and women, the issue of gender ratios is still very much alive in many concentrations, which must try to encourage students of both sexes to join while also responding to the unique needs of their predominately male or female constituencies...
...Department of English and American Literature and Language, women concentrators outnumber men by more than two to one. At present there are 198 female students and 88 male students. “The gender breakdown has always been that way,” says undergraduate English programs administrator Inge-Lise Ameer, though she admits she is unsure why this is so. “One factor could be the gender breakdown of professors. I’ve never had anyone say to me ‘that’s why I chose to do English’ but that...
...Department of History of Science (which oversees the undergraduate concentration in History and Science) the issue of gender is a little more complicated, though the approximately two-to-one proportion of female concentrators remains the same. As in the English department, administrators say it is unclear why women undergraduates are particularly attracted to their discipline. One possible cause could be the more “woman-friendly culture” in their department that differs sharply from the atmosphere in hard sciences such as chemistry or physics, says head tutor Stephanie H. Kenen...
Hemenway said the study was meant to provide data that previous studies on homicides—which typically do not consider the gender of victims—failed to provide. Since men are much more likely to be murdered than women, statistics that consider all homicides masks specific data pertaining to women, he said...