Word: genderism
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Women will likely comprise 49% of the incoming class, reflecting the smallest gender gap an entering class has ever seen...
Marianne LaFrance, a professor of women's and gender studies at Yale and the faculty chair of FLAGS, said both she and Kramer think this year's gift is the better for the university than what had first been proposed...
...take place if there's no audience." Seeds University Elementary School in Los Angeles uses "equity guidelines" to target both bullies and bystanders. Parents and students sign contracts at the beginning of the year stipulating that no child may be put down for academic performance, appearance, family composition or gender, among other things. When an incident occurs--for example, some boys tried to pull down another boy's pants--bystanders are also sent to after-school mediation...
Nepal has signed all of the appropriate international conventions and treaties on gender and women, but has little to show for it. Maternal mortality is high?more than 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births. Only 29% of women are literate, compared with 50% of men. "If we could get some admission that women aren't slaves or possessions of men, then eventually they would be free to play a full role in society," says activist Uprety. "Right now they're little better than pack animals...
...James Schamus, one of the film's writers and producers. "In all the great epics, from the Iliad on, the protagonists have been masculine, their destinies a masculine destiny. Now a real shift is taking place, in which some collective identities--those created for the whole culture regardless of gender--are female...