Word: genderism
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...prominent genres, giving juicy roles to a galaxy of female stars. Now women's pictures--or, in the current demographic devolution, girl movies--are so rare that when two or more appear within a month, we can hope it's the start of a trend back to a more gender-equal cinema...
...GENDER GAP Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill who set out to discover why boys do better in math than girls were surprised to find that the gender gap doesn't add up. Previous studies had concentrated on small groups of gifted teenagers, but the UNC study looked at a broader sample of students. Among the findings were that girls had higher average scores than boys until about age 11 and higher reasoning scores from 11 to 13. While boys do show a faster acceleration in math skills as they get older, the largest difference between boys and girls was late...
...mission of ethnic studies is to diversify the academic curriculum to include critical perspectives of ethnic communities that have been historically neglected by Euro-centric academia and to examine the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. Ethnic studies, the collective term that commonly refers to Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, has often been connected to minority communities, but the scholarship seeks to diversify the curriculum to examine the experiences and perspectives of all ethnic groups, including “white” ethnic groups such as Irish and Jewish Americans. In essence, ethnic studies...
Defenders of the traditional disciplines describe them as if they guaranteed both an authentic relation to the past and the survival of critical reason itself. They tend to suggest that if students are thinking about things like personal identity, sexuality, or the experience of gender, they are not thinking. I’d suggest that the opposite is true: students do their best thinking when they engage the complexities and difficulties that the “real world” so richly provides...
...social acceptance. The desire to find “marginalized discourses, perspectives and theories” should be weighed against the cost and importance of their study and against whether this research could be fit coherently into a larger, less exclusionary whole. Why not have a Department of Gender and Sexuality that could deal with all aspects of these topics? Why break down into ever-smaller groups and not build up into “axes of intellectual inquiry?...