Word: genderism
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This year's survey, which is no longer affiliated with the council, is only available on-line and requires students to indicate personal information including their own gender and the gender (or genders) of a desired mate...
Drawn to Radcliffe's outstanding academic resources, over 80 visiting fellows and scholars are engaged in research with resident scholars in the Radcliffe Institutes for Advanced Study. Their work ranges from gender studies to health care to astrophysics...
...East Coast, it seems that a majority of American women might also have their erasers at the ready to continue the blurring of the line between church and state. In a survey of 1,000 women taken by Princeton Research Associates on behalf of the Center for Gender Equality, 76 percent said that they believe religious leaders and groups have a "somewhat" or "very positive" effect on the country. 50 percent said they felt "religion and politics shouldn't mix," down from 63 percent who felt that way when a similar survey was taken in 1992. Fifty-three percent were...
...Supreme Court has applied sexual-harassment law liberally in a number of recent cases. In two rulings last term it decided that same-gender workplace harassment is actionable and that schools can be responsible for the sexual misbehavior of teachers. But during oral arguments in the Davis case last week, the Justices made it clear that they were troubled by this case. Only a few sentences into her argument, the Davises' lawyer was stopped by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "I'm sure children nationwide tease each other," she said. "Is every one of those incidents going to lead...
...DAVID MAMET refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's Goldberg Streets as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the O.K. from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...