Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe Class Marshal Virginia L. Stimpson '89, who helped select Pauley for the Class Day speech, says the news anchor's gender was a factor in the choice, but that she did not think Pauley would address women's issues specifically...
Radcliffe can and should play an important role in these women's lives by providing them with valuable female mentors and encouraging them to fully develop their potential in the face on continuing gender discrimination both of campus and in society...
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor insisted that her gender would not impact her decisions. "I think the important fact about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases." Nonetheless, since her appointment the court has become remarkably more supportive of sex discrimination complaints, according to a study of cases decided before and after O'Connor's appointment...
...matter how women minimize the impact of gender on their leadership, womanhood is a definitive factor on the job. As pathfinders, the appointees inevitably become role models. When Zeckhauser speaks before groups of employees, "what people resonate most to is what it's like to be a woman in this job, the fact that it is doable. I face a lot of the same problems other women do in jobs around the university as working women...
...women leaders cannot avoid gaining different perspectives on their way to the top, balancing a career with raising children, joining women's groups, experiencing safety threats, harrassment, or discrimination. "Even if she has spent her days rejecting the social imperatives of her gender identity...she will have experienced life as a female," said Mandel...