Word: genderism
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...Saturday's Yard gate dedication and the glossy brochures dropped in the houses remind us, it has been 25 years since women were welcomed as equals in Harvard Yard. And yet, if the gender breakdown of this year's Undergraduate Council is any indication, women are still not adequately represented at Harvard...
...council's gender and ethnic composition would matter little if all the council did was plan dances. But given the council's power to distribute $120,000 to student groups and--more critically--to represent the student body's voice to the Administration, internal diversity is very important...
Some council members have argued that it does not matter what a student's race or gender is, so long as he or she can represent diverse views. This view is doubly mistaken: first, in the presumption that one's personal background is irrelevant to council decision-making, and second in the idea that there is nothing inherently wrong with the council's being largely composed of white males...
...feedback and conscience. The former has impact in determining a council member's ability to reach out to all his constituents and the latter--which often takes precedence on the council, given the lack of give-and-take with constituents--can be greatly affected by such defining factors as gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation...
Second, it is neither random nor unproblematic that a majority of the council always has been white and male, out of balance with the College's gender and ethnic make-up. There is nothing about being a white male that makes a student a better representative; as such, the skewed proportions are the simple result of the historic marginalization of females and non-white students from the council's business, and from American society as a whole. It will take a concerted effort by the council's leadership to remedy the situation...