Word: genderism
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Harry R. Lewis '68, dean of Harvard College and chair of the committee which selects the recipient of the Frothingham, wrote yesterday in an e-mail message, "my request that the terms of the remaining College gender-restricted prizes be reviewed was made in the context of Harvard College assuming responsibility for a number of what had been Radcliffe awards...
...with Radcliffe College's merger with Harvard last year, the newly formed Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study transferred responsibility for every Radcliffe award except the Fay Prize to the College. Since then, sorting through the legalities of gender-restricted prizes has been on the College's agenda...
Many of Radcliffe's prizes carried gender restrictions with them--Radcliffe had always given them to a woman, and as an all-women's college, had been exempt from the gender-blind policies Title IX mandates...
...legal process of removing the gender restrictions brought Radcliffe's prizes to the Holyoke Center desks of Harvard's Office of General Counsel...
Lewis said yesterday that during this process, he asked for the College's gender-restricted prizes to be examined as well...