Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the entire country was waiting for her to fail. "In the worst times I always thought, If you get through this, it will be much better for the next woman." As it turned out, she was the next woman, and by 1986, when she returned to power, her gender was no longer much of an issue. The collapse of oil prices had left Norway high and dry and deep in debt: Brundtland dazzled both friends and foes with a perilous high-wire act. On one hand she capped wages, devalued the krone and clamped down on consumer credit...
Harvard sexism? For those naive souls who still think this to be an oxymoron, last Friday night's 10 p.m. showing of Love Story demonstrated clearly just how pervasive gender insensitivity is in this community...
...judge concluded that Harvard's transgression was not an attempt to suppress unfavorable evidence. And though he offered Jackson the opportunity to reopen the discovery process, she declined to press the matter further. with Harvard's error dismissed, Woodlock ultimately ruled that gender played no part in the University's decision...
...former Business School professor lodged an appeal last Friday to a federal ruling that Harvard did not base her tenure decision on gender, her counsel said yesterday...
Judge Douglas P. Woodlock found this summer that although Harvard "deserved to be sanctioned" for its actions, the University had not attempted to sabotage Jackson's suit. Woodlock ultimately ruled that objective standards of scholarship, and not gender, led the B-School to deny her tenure twice...