Word: genderism
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...Theatricals portion of the Pudding technically complies with the College's policy forbidding recognized student groups from discriminating on the basis of gender, though only men are allowed to act on the Pudding stage. Women are involved in all other aspects of the Theatricals' productions and hence the group retains its recognized status...
...Audience member Nehal S. Patel '02 said she was impressed by Hasina's speech. She said the Prime Minister's gender made "it all the more amazing that she's done what...
...many see as a legitimate educational experiment. Last week, Parkwood Middle School, in a suburb of Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls involved; in their argument against the separation, the civil rights group cited a 1972 law banning sexual discrimination at federally funded schools...
...whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a less enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just as an odd coalition of religious conservatives and feminists will continue to trumpet the benefits of same-sex classrooms, the ACLU will continue to champion civil rights laws - even...
...possible that women are interested in politics less as a sports event, what is sometimes called a 'horserace,' than men," said Mansbridge, who added that she was simply speculating about causes for the gender...