Word: genderism
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Lewis had said the Fay Prize couldn't legally be given in the future under the gender restriction that had governed it in the past...
...many prizes it was possible simply to lift the gender restriction, but this one seemed to have a special status," Lewis wrote last week...
...Frank J. Connors, the Harvard attorney who reviewed the terms of the Fay Prize, said that legally the gender restriction can easily be removed and the prize made open to both men and women...
Indeed, said Connors, once the gender restriction is removed, the Institute would be free to award the prize this year from a legal perspective...
...Acting Dean of the Institute Mary Maples Dunn said the Institute was prepared to eliminate the gender restrictions, but the character of the Fay prize still needs to change...