Word: genderism
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...years I have resisted the notion that women have financial-planning needs that are unique to their gender. We all need stocks that go up, don't we? And getting out of debt is important for everyone, isn't it? True, but things aren't quite equal. Thirty years into the feminist movement, breadwinners remain predominantly male. As a consequence, men have a lot less to lose financially in divorce or on the death of a spouse...
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...
Members of the group, which Rudenstine said he hoped would finish its work by the end of the fall semester, will advise incoming dean Drew Faust on how the Institute can fulfill its stated mission to study women, gender and society...
...same debate in the barracks, and "It's too easy" was one of my main complaints in the dispatches I sent home from Fort Jackson (that and the boredom, and for a while my sore feet). Ask drill sergeants, and some blame gender-integrated training, others the "doggone Nintendo generation," others the end-of-camp customer-satisfaction-like surveys that actually ask departing trainees what they thought. (Somebody does read them, and the squeaky wheels are apparently getting the greasing.) The saddest part came at the end, when, after two months of taunting us with threats of expulsion...
ELIZABETH DOLE Too syrupy sweet but gender a plus. Red Cross is compassion. But can they get along...