Word: genderism
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...spring of 1997, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote me this in a fax: "I hope that in the coming years, the gender ratio in the College and on the faculty may in all fields approach unity...and that all admissions (to the College) and all appointments (to the Faculty) be gender blind." Two years later, women still comprise less than 50 percent of the student body, and the percentage of tenured women Faculty is still remarkably low at 13.4 percent, although up from 11.5 percent in 1997 and 9.6 percent...
...trend in the size of blocking groups, particularly those with the maximum number of 16. House masters and College administrators have long worried about this upward trend, but these figures finally confirm those concerns. In particular, officials worry that the trend will stymie the College's attempts to create gender balance in the Houses-a goal the Crimson supports...
Will creating a hundred female professorship radically shift the gender ratio within the college? With currently over 400 tenured faculty, Women's Studies into a nationally renowned department would so what the Radcliffe Institute wants to do, to express "continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society." But it would do so in a truly bold and dramatic fashion--by fully integrating men and women, administratively and intellectually, at Harvard (and Radcliffe). Alexander T. Nguyen'99 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. His column will resume during reading period...
What humans share with so many other animals, it now appears, is freewheeling homosexuality. For centuries opponents of gay rights have seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place...
...bodies until both partners become sexually aroused. Heterosexual and homosexual dolphin pairs engage in face-to-face sexual encounters that look altogether human. Animals as diverse as elephants and rodents practice same-sex mounting, and macaques raise that affection ante further, often kissing while assuming a coital position. Same-gender sexual activity, says Bagemihl, "encompasses a wide range of forms...