Word: genderism
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Topics of conversation at the varying tables ranged from the difficulties women face in winning re-election to cultural practices that hamper gender equality...
Dame E. Charles, former prime minister of the British Commonwealth state of Dominica (1980-95), recalled struggling with preconceptions about gender during her term...
...official: I m a really bad feminist. Odd, since I sincerely believe in the equality of sexes. This equality still fails to show up in the gender ratio of faculty or even of section assholes. Feminism does and did a lot to banish such inequality (understatement) and I m grateful that I can pursue whatever catches my fancyaexcept, considering my petite stature, maybe wrestling or basketball. Not to say that there aren t women who can do those pretty darn well...
...view on this hasn't really changed much--Radcliffe should become an allied institution of the University. Radcliffe can capitalize on a more integrated relationship with Harvard to achieve its mission: bringing important resources and prominence to issues of women, gender and society. More than end the identity confusion that the "college" appellation creates (Radcliffe is not a college and should not pose as one), a successful redefinition of Radcliffe under the University umbrella would commit Harvard to paying close attention to the study of gender...
...last 30 years, students have moved on from the fight over Vietnam to battle for divestment from South Africa, for gender and racial equality on campus and today, in the living wage and anti-sweatshop movements, for stricter University labor policies...