Word: genderism
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...prize was subject to legal review this spring--along with all of Harvard's seemingly gender-specific Commencement prizes--to check for compliance with Title IX of the 1972 educational amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title IX bars educational institutions that receive federal aid, like Harvard, from discriminating on the basis...
Frank J. Connors, a University attorney, said yesterday that all of the College's gender-specific prizes, including the Frothingham, had been reviewed by his office and legal recommendations sent to the appropriate administrators...
Carol Gilligan is Harvard's celebrated gender studies professor, Ms. Magazine's 1984 Woman of the Year and winner of the prestigious $250,000 Heinz award...
...year-old Graham professor of gender studies emphasizes that her work is grounded in empirical research...
...hopeful about the future, it is because I see the increasingly vocal demand for democracy in the world and the growing understanding of the need for social justice. Democracy is recovering some of its lost ground in Asia, Latin America and even Africa. Gender equity and basic education are beginning to receive more attention in India, Bangladesh and elsewhere. I am not unconditionally hopeful, but certainly conditionally so. We must, however, take a sufficiently broad view of poverty to make sure the poor have reason for hope...