Word: genderism
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...gender is interesting, but it is not the story here," Fiorina, 44, insisted. She prefers instead that the focus be on her considerable achievements as an executive with AT&T and its Lucent Technologies spin-off. But if she were merely another old, white male appointed CEO by an old, white male board of directors, then her assuming the mantle would be about as newsworthy as last week's announcement of Michael Capellas to run HP rival Compaq. "No woman has achieved leadership at this level of American business," says Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst, a New York City organization...
Still, the technology sector has been notoriously slow to promote women executives--only 7% of top officers at FORTUNE 500 tech firms are female. But in this business where brand and the CEO become interchangeable--think of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Dell's Michael Dell--Fiorina's gender may actually become an advantage. In PCs, where HP faces increasing competition, products are becoming more commodity-like and prices are falling. Now, HP's gray boxes, in part because of Fiorina's gender, will have just a little bit more cachet than the other guys' gray boxes. That in turn...
...Slavin's The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Henry Holt; 194 pages; $22) and Elena Lappin's fine collection, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 208 pages; $22). In My Date with Satan (Scribner; 223 pages; $22), author Stacey Richter covers female rivalry and the gender wars in a manner that indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer's sales expectations. Romantic relationships receive less fantastical treatment...
...major resource for anyone interested in women in religion and the influences of gender on religion," Bucchanan said of the department, which has been in place at the Divinity School since 1980. "There's none other like it in the world...
...courts stated basically 'we're not going to second guess administrators as long as there is no race and gender bias...we're not going to get involved in these matters,'" MacLeish said...