Word: genderism
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Last March, a statistical report issued by MIT admitted subtle gender bias had created unequal treatment for the school's tenured women faculty in the sciences...
...study found that "junior women faculty feel well supported within their departments and most do not believe that gender bias will impact their careers." But tenured women faculty feel marginalized by disparities in salary, space, awards and resources compared to their male counterparts...
...fact that men's bodies produce far more testosterone than women's bodies. His answer--a lot--was offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith Shulevitz attacked Sullivan for favoring nature over environment in a debate in which nobody knows yet which is which...
...submitted the prize to [the lawyers and they] responded that they thought the prize should not be gender specific," Dunn said...
...increasing recognition by mainstream science that individual genetic composition, age, gender and behavioral attributes contribute greatly to human susceptibility to diseases of known environmental causes gives strength to grassroots movements to improve Federal standards and increase the stringency of regulations for the protection of the most susceptible among us. Yes, it will be expensive, and yes, industry and employers will probably fight against it. But the vision of differential vulnerability and unequal susceptibility can be erased no sooner than the unanimously accepted vision of environmental protection as a justified right of free citizens. These national issues of environmental justice...