Word: genderism
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...primary objective of Drew Gilpin Faust, newly appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be to increase the number of tenured women professors at Harvard, where the gender make-up of the faculty stands at an embarrassing and antiquated ratio of six male professors to every female professor. Dean Faust plans to accomplish this by giving qualified female scholars access to Radcliffe’s resources and research programs, which will in turn allow them to gain tenured positions in an institution apparently unconcerned with its faculty’s gender imbalance...
...social benefits. You have to be a graceful loser--and winner--in front of peers. Plus, the game is fairly democratic. You need a certain build to try out for the football team or a certain amount of money to play golf, but chess cuts across racial, economic and gender barriers. All you need, besides an opponent, is a board and 32 pieces...
...groups for a number of years, and I have always considered myself a feminist. But suddenly, the pieces have fallen into place, and I see all around me examples of subtle and overt efforts to undermine women and preserve a tradition of male domination. The relationship between pornography, gendered marketing and the social pressure to assume “traditional” gender roles on the one hand, and sexual violence, the glass ceiling, domestic violence and workplace harassment on the other, is stark and clear. The objectification of women is the first step in their disempowerment and ultimately their...
Erdrich, who was raised a Catholic, admits that making her main character a woman priest has a feminist aspect, but adds, "I don't really think it is about gender in the larger sense. I think it's about a search for identity." The possibility of being more than one sort of person comes to Erdrich as a birthright: she is German on her father's side and French and Ojibwe on her mother's. She spent her childhood in Wahpeton, N.D., where both parents taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. Those years drew Erdrich strongly toward...
...audience, and three of them were men. On the one hand, that is a strong turnout for a poetry reading, but on the other hand it is a particular one. The venue, Radcliffe, and the nature of its publicity network probably circumscribed the audience’s gender composition. That does not mean they were all there for the same reason. While people who go to poetry readings generally know why they do, the same could not be said for everyone in this audience. During the question and answer period that followed the event, audience members were candid about their...