Word: genderism
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...denied the council--which has long advocated racial and gender diversity in the Faculty--was trying to send a message...
...Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) created a "civil right to be free from gender motivated violence," according to MacKinnon, but Fried, who is also Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS), argued Congress exceeded its Constitutional power by passing...
...constitutional question pivots on a civil right provision in VAWA that allows civil damages to be awarded to victims of crimes "committed because of gender or on the basis of gender, and due, at least in part, to an animus based on the victim's gender...
Congress can invoke the commerce clause, which allows it to regulate commerce between the states, because gender violence limits victims' ability to participate in interstate commerce, she said...
...cited "a massive body of evidence," supporting the link between gender-based violence and interstate economics as justifying Congress' passing a violence bill under a commerce clause...