Word: genderism
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...Author of New York Times best seller The Overspent American, Schor is known to most undergraduates as the spirited professor of "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" a.k.a., Women's Studies 132. In that class, Schor argues that shopping has been trivialized in this country mainly because of a gender breakdown in which people associate consumption with females and production with males. Contending that the acts of purchasing and shopping are actually a very important component of American society, Schor then critiques the adverse affects of consumerism. For 10 years Schor has analyzed the relationship between...
According to Hoyte, Rudenstine is dedicated to the effort of creating a gender balance...
Harvard's central administrators are the first ones to admit that the gender imbalance is a problem...
Provost Harvey Fineberg says the University can only help itself by correcting the gender imbalance...
While the University as a whole is known for its low number of tenured women, GSE is the closest to achieving gender balance...