Word: genderism
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...gender balance was fairly equal--1,069 males and 1,126 females...
...true that osteoporosis strikes women with much greater frequency than men--in some studies as much as four to six times as often. But that's no reason to brush it off as "their" disease. It's a mere stroke of gender luck that men's bones tend to grow larger, stronger and denser. Also paying dividends are those sports that boys (and, increasingly, girls) play as children--running up and down basketball courts, soccer fields and baseball diamonds. As it happens, physical activity is one of the more important ways to increase bone density and protect bone health...
Last week MIT held a well-publicized conference on approaches to remedy gender bias at universities across the country last week, one year after its newsletter published an article alleging "pervasive" and "institutional" discrimination against women. Harvard was one of nine universities to participate in the conference, along with Yale and Stanford...
...Since we have a faculty already," says Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen '81-'82, "obviously any shift in its gender balance will be slow and incremental. The question is less the gender ratio within the faculty as a whole than the ratio among current hires...
...Faculty in gender and sexuality are more likely to be doing interdisciplinary work and are more likely to be women," she says...