Word: genderism
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...Radcliffe Institute's mission to study "women, gender and society" may surely result in the production of worthwhile scholarship. It may also result in an outpouring of Leftist, post-modern nonsense. Only time will tell, but surely our enthusiasm must be mitigated when we consider the unfortunate track record of gender studies...
...none of these circumstances applies to our friend. Incapacitated? Well, she can't really walk so well, but I don't really see that mild disability keeping her out of the job market. Discriminated against? No, nothing there, either. About the only possibility is her gender, but that is generally an upper-management prejudice--and I can't envision her having bumped into any glass ceilings in the recent past. And finally, on the subject of recent past, she has been at her stoop for most of it. Since I began attending this university, she has sat atop her milk...
Finally, alumnae and potential donors are likely to insist that the new dean be firmly committed to women's and gender studies, or as former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson liked to put it, "advancing society by advancing women...
Shapiro says she's supportive of the new Institute, especially its potential to be a leader in gender studies...
...gender relations might seem odd to you, but it was normal for the 1950s," she said. "There was a 'dean of women,' women had parietal rules that were different from parietal rules...