Word: genderism
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Harvard's real common ground this summer--the story that spanned major, gender, age and summer job--was not public service, activism, the Internet, the presidential election, or cell phones. It was Harry Potter...
Whoever this woman may be, she will not be nominated solely because of her gender but rather because she has proven herself as an accomplished academic administrator. It would be terribly detrimental to both the University and to the ideals of feminism if an unqualified woman assumed the University presidency. But there are women with the leadership qualities, vision and administrative experience who can escort our University into the next century. It is not enough that the short list of presidential candidates includes a few token women and minorities--one of them should be offered the position...
...faculty more diverse. Even so, it hasn't been easy for women to break through the ranks. Faculty positions, of course, are subject to the career decisions of those who have already secured their positions as professors. Until great turnover finally enables the University to change the gender composition of its departments, white males will continue to dominate the tenured faculty positions at the College and University...
...these eight tales, frisky and wryly sympathetic Bloom, a Connecticut psychotherapist, introduces a heterodox band of characters that includes a girl awaiting transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...
...Haworth busted the gender barrier a couple years ago in her hometown of Savannah, Ga., to the amazement of the local Y chromosomes. Men and teenage boys are, in fact, her biggest fans. At 17 this high school senior is already the world's best junior weight lifter, and she aims to be Olympic champion. "She's the best woman lifter I've ever seen," says her coach, Mike Cohen, a former Olympian who now runs Team Savannah, one of the country's top weight-lifting centers...