Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dalton charged in her suit that the Law School faculty discriminated against her because of her political beliefs and her gender in voting to deny her tenure. After delaying the tenure decision for two years, the faculty voted on Dalton's case last spring. Dalton did not receive the two-thirds majority necessary to give her a permanent post at the school. She later appealed that vote...
...unfortunately for Bok and company, Dalton is entitled to another hearing--this time before a government court. Dalton will announce today whether or not she will pursue a suit she filed in November against Harvard; if she does, her case will be the second active gender discrimination case based on a University tenure decision. Hardly something any institution would highlight on its resume...
Alas, all of Bok's deliberations will provide scant help during the trial. The president ignored the most important question he was asked to adjudicate: whether the law faculty discriminated against Dalton on the basis of politics and gender...
...Cornell Psychology professor said that society places too much emphasis on gender differences and creates artifical distinctions between the sexes...
...Gender is insinuated in areas where gender is irrelevant," Bem said. "Children are taught to think of the whole world in terms of the dimension of gender...