Word: genderization
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While only 12 percent of the natural science senior faculty Hokestra entered is comprised of women, her ascension to the top of the tenure ladder shows that female academics—once marginalized—are now beginning to balance the gender skew...
...years since Harvard undertook a new series of ambitious outreach efforts to encourage talented students from all backgrounds to come to Harvard. With a record 30,000 applicants to Harvard this year, it is clear that we have made much progress. Today, people across America, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or economic circumstances realize that Harvard is within reach. Harvard has been in the forefront as higher education has opened its doors, and America now has a much greater chance of playing a leadership role in the world for generations to come...
...university now. You need to realize that you’re standing on the shoulders of people like Mary I. Bunting who worked very hard and made many sacrifices,” she said. “Women do have a somewhat different life trajectory because of their gender. Different cultural patterns exist and that is fine. There doesn’t have to exist a contradiction between being an excellent professional in a given field and being feminine. Women now should honor both...
...they say, don’t hate the player, hate the game. I don’t hate men’s sports, but I do hate the game of gender appeal differences in sports. We’ve tried dozens of initiatives to change this point of view. Title IX. Establishing the WNBA. Putting the Women’s College World Series on ESPN. Still, the stigma lives on. Most people I have talked to have told me they had no idea what a fast-paced and exciting sport softball was until they saw a college game...
...clear that there was no institutional place for Women’s Studies,” said Young, now a professor of English and Gender Studies at Mt. Holyoke College. “We knew there was extremely exciting intellectual work out there that we really wanted to bring to Harvard...