Word: genderism
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...house was originally built to help diversify the Quad; however, at that time, gender rather than ethnic diversification was the priority...
...Harvard at which we initially arrived is all but forgotten now, with its de facto segregation by gender, class and (to the extent there was minority representation) race. As a graduate of a middle-class public high school, I was assigned demographically similar roommates in the Yard; the wealthier prep school boys also kept to themselves, on their way to the final clubs the rest of us never entered...
...want to see the institution of gender equality, and to that end, the council should focus attention on the safety and academic concerns of women on campus. We want to deal with competent advising, counseling and health care services, a demand that includes better and increased staffing. We want to retain our privacy in these areas; the council is right to insist on anonymous HIV testing, secure computer records and closed personal files. Finally, we want to see Harvard be socially responsible in its investments (get out of Nigeria!) and in its consumption (we hail Coke's return to soda...
Dole also has a clear position on affirmative action, albeit a new one: he introduced legislation last year to end all federal racial and gender preferences, after having supported them for two decades. So he too must tread carefully and slowly. First, affirmative action may be the most pointed arrow in his quiver, and he may prefer to save it until later in the contest. But more immediately, Dole knows it would be quite unwise to make an overhaul of affirmative action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell...
...have a gender-gap problem. The way to ease it is to bring up the real women's issue of this campaign: the fact that more and more women are entrepreneurs--dry-cleaner's owners, real estate-agency owners--and taxes and regulation are killing them. Show women who are breaking their backs pursuing economic freedom that you're on their side...