Word: genderism
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They watched as imbalanced gender admissions quotas were eliminated, and women were finally on equal footing with men in the Harvard admissions office...
...female student. Former President Derek C. Bok mandated that the ratio for the Class of 1976 be changed to 2.5 to one. The debate over the admissions policy took place and was resolved during the Class of 1976’s time on campus. Administrators finally abolished the gender quotas for the class...
...close examination of gender roles in The Left Hand of Darkness came from one of the few woman science fiction writers of her era. But while she found success in a field dominated by men, Le Guin came from Harvard/Radcliffe at a time when gender roles were strictly defined. And she says something has been lost in the newer system where Radcliffe has merged completely into Harvard...
...real grief...a real defeat, because I do think there's a real need for places that offer gender separativity," she says. "Women need places to be women...
Fifth, the diversity (read, “lack thereof”) of our faculty is embarrassing. Gender diversity is a perfect example: as a science concentrator I have had only a single tenured female professor in all four years, and she taught a Core class. While the balance of professors in the humanities seem to be moving towards reasonable numbers, the numbers of tenured women in the sciences at Harvard is ridiculous. It is hard to make arguments about a lacking “pipeline” of women students in the sciences, given that graduate students are usually...