Word: genderism
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Obasanjo cited six major areas that need improvement: expansion of minority rights, gender equality, alleviating poverty, youth development, globalization and cultural identity...
...because we are people, not statistics. We have nothing to be ashamed of. [South Africa is] a so-called moral society that does nothing, that should be filled with shame." Indeed, in a country in which race remains hugely sensitive, the debate centers, surprisingly, not on race but on gender equality. An antirape TV ad by actress Charlize Theron, for example, was temporarily pulled because it offended...
Love, she once said, was "the bread of my life and pen," but so too were gender, instinct, the natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages...
...against all discrimination. I am against discrimination on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation. The place to deal with that is the 1964 Civil Rights Act, adding sexual orientation to the list of protected classes," he said...
...believe that the attempt in the large majority of HRDC productions is to cast solely on merit, and willingness to cast across racial or gender lines exists. Simply shutting ourselves off from communication is not the answer...