Word: genderism
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...professor who requested that all freshmen and sophomores should immediately leave the classroom because this course "was simply over their heads, it would be a waste of time for you to take it." Her reasoning was that successful contribution to the course required a somewhat developed knowledge of gender theory. A student told the professor that she was a sophomore, but had already taken a 90-level seminar and had been exposed to advanced gender theory. The professor told the student to leave. She only wanted juniors and seniors. That was the end of the conversation. The student left, albeit...
...series of recommendations from a White House aviation safety commission, also suggests that airlines should take steps to make sure that such passengers actually board the flights on which they?ve checked baggage. Despite language in the report stipulating that such profiles not be based on race, ethnicity or gender, civil libertarians fear that people of Middle Eastern origin in particular will be singled out. "The proposed profiling system is invasive of privacy and likely to be discriminatory," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Gregory Nojeim. He argued that airlines can only prevent a terrorist from checking a bomb...
...magazine's Website is also the home of "Dr. Smoothe," an advice columnist who dispenses love and relationship hints to readers who e-mail their questions to 360. Dale refuses to reveal either the identity or the gender of Dr. Smoothe...
Mueller agrees that the gender imbalance is a symptom of a problem endemic to the sciences, and not specific to undergraduate teaching fellows...
...think the gender imbalance [in student TFs] reflects the gender imbalance within the Chemistry department rather than any bias," Mueller says...