Word: genderism
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...GENDER INEQUALITY By age 4 1/2, boys usually display better spatial skills and reasoning than girls of the same age--skills that are used later in life to do math and read maps. Researchers have long believed this difference is largely biological. But recent studies have shown that while biology does play a role, the nurture factor cannot be discounted. In daily play girls aren't encouraged as much as boys to engage in such spatially oriented activities as playing with blocks and puzzles...
...hiking gear and Italian sodas, and a local college, Evergreen, that is one of America's most left-wing and unconventional fonts of higher learning. While Seattle's bands headbanged on MTV in the alternative-rock heyday of the early '90s, Olympia was locked in her bedroom reading postmodern gender theory and writing songs on her eight-track for college-radio cognoscenti. Now that Seattle's grunge empire has been sacked and burned on the charts by Kid Rock and his rap-metal hordes, Olympia's homework is starting...
...Against Boys, conservative ideologue Christina Hoff Sommers blames liberal women for the boy crisis. Movement feminists, she says, cornered the market on victimhood for girls--and thus victimized boys. Gender-equity programs in schools only benefit girls, while boys are seen as "protosexists" and potential harassers. Sommers claims that most of the women in boys' lives--their teachers and counselors (and presumably their mothers)--don't understand masculinity and are threatened by it. Boys, she says, suffer when they're taught by women who want them to be in touch with their feelings; boys express themselves best through play...
...exactly prove that drinking large volumes of coffee is a guarantee for developing RA. There are several risk factors that doctors have traditionally used to assess a person's total risk for RA, and they include, smoking, obesity, high blood levels of cholesterol, increasing age and female gender. This study took those factors into account, and after doing so, still found that there was a doubling of the risk for those drinking four or more cups of coffee...
...allowance of an astounding $50. A wage gap, however, shows up early in life. Even though the top 10 allowance-earning chores are the same for both, boys are paid more on average than girls for the same jobs, according to allowancenet.com Monetary rewards for good report cards are gender neutral...