Word: genderism
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Other areas we would like the committee to tackle as soon as possible are: promoting campus safety, instituting gender-sensitivity training for T.F.s, incorporating gender issues into the required first-year discussions on diversity, setting up a panel or discussion groups about how women leaders and women in general are perceived by their peers on campus, investigating Harvard's record of giving tenure to women, and re-evaluating Lewis' decision to retain the non-gender-neutral term "freshmen" to refer to first-year students...
...realize that Rome wasn't built in a day and that the problems confronting women at the College will not be solved overnight. We look to the gender committee to take its mission seriously, keep a higher profile, meet often and provide much-needed role models for women at Harvard...
...immoral to exclude based on characteristics that are irrelevant. Hence Harvard's non-discrimination code; it would be wrong for the University, whose goal is to train scholars and citizens, to reject a qualified candidate simply because he or she is black or Jewish. One's race, ethnicity and gender have nothing to do with one's potential to learn or improve society...
Similarly, race and ethnicity--though not gender, for the reasons mentioned above--have no inherent capacity to affect one's social potential, and therefore are not justifiable grounds for exclusion from a fraternity or final club. (Although it is undeniable that in this less-than-perfect world, social choices are often made on such grounds...
...doing this study, we sought to understand how racial discrimination affects health in ways that may be modified by social class and gender," said Krieger, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "This is profoundly different from approaches that treat 'race' as if it were some kind of inherent characteristic...