Word: genderism
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Take the government department’s annual Halloween party. The room is full of political scientists exercising their Harvard-groomed competitive streaks in an attempt to win the most creative costume contest. In the corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli...
...Gender reforms are slow and hard-fought. In 1999 the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, issued a decree for the first time giving women the right to vote in and stand for election to the Kuwaiti parliament, the only lively Arab legislature in the Persian Gulf. Conservatives in parliament, however, blocked its implementation. In addition, the legislature has voted to segregate the sexes at Kuwait University. Morocco's government has proposed giving women more marriage and property rights and a primary role in developmental efforts, but fundamentalists are resisting the measures...
...conference, entitled “Rethinking the SAT,” examined the SAT’s validity as a measuring tool for applicants, and tried to determine whether race, class, or gender biases are present in the test...
Single fathers mostly scoff at those who assert the inherent superiority of mothers. And some scholars say gender is less important than factors like a supportive network of family and friends. "Twenty years of research has shown that fathers can learn to do most anything that mother does," says Jeffery Evans of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. That's not to say there are no differences. Studies show fathers tend to roughhouse more with kids, pushing them to take risks, while mothers tend be better organizers. So far, though, these differences have been measured in married...
Several of the projects funded this round are new, including three proposed by Women in Color (WINC), a group formed last spring to explore the intersection of race, gender and class on campus. One of WINC's projects is the preparation of a show written and performed by female and minority undergraduates...