Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry that a son who doesn't play with dolls will never be a caring, involved father. Nonsexist, writes Pogrebin, is not the same as unisex or sexless. It is a way of freeing individualism, of "opening all possibilities to children so they are not predestined by gender...
...incorrigible off-spring of a Harvard-Radcliffe marriage, has become more and more popular each year, because apart from the sheer joy of tearing about a grass field flailing a wooden stick in the air, it provides a rare instance of mutual participation and cooperation uncomplicated an unaffected by gender...
...secretive aspect of the system often gives the impression that decisions are made using unfair criteria--such as gender--particularly when departments recommend against promotion for their own associate professors. Because the "first order of eminence" guidelines are vague and because the senior faculty members who take part in departmental tenure votes discuss those decisions about as readily as the government provides top secret military information to the Kremlin, rejected junior faculty members often have only a hazy, idea of why their departments didn't want them. In the Skocpol decision, for example, James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology...
...male-dominated work places, secretaries and other office-workers have long endured the indignity of being told exactly what women could and could not do. As the victims of America's 350-year plunge into slavery. Black women bear a tragic legacy unknown to any other member of their gender in this country...
...lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union contends that because pregnancy is "gender-specific," any restriction of state funding for abortions automatically discriminates against women--and therefore violates the state...