Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unprecedented decision, the council voted 35-22 to add a statement to the Academic Appointment Manual extending affirmative action considerations to tenure and promotion review. "In accordance with the University's commitment to racial ethnic and gender diversity in the education experience, it is appropriate and desirable that affirmative action considerations also be taken into account in the evaluation of faculty for tenure and promotion," the amendment states...
During the past 15 years, a vigorous body of scholarship in humanities, social sciences and life sciences has begun to illuminate the political, cultural, economic, and social roles of women, to assess the contributions of women to society and culture, and to analyze the function of gender in a wide spectrum of societies and cultures. Under the broad rubric of Women's Studies, that scholarship has both produced new knowledge and revised our understanding of established information and modes of thought Scholars have tapped neglected resources that reveal women's experiences, and have brought to the forefront often forgotten texts...
...survey also examines the gender and ethnic composition of individual classes a factor that the previous study in the early 1970s did not consider. The office of instruction research and evaluation in conducting the survey...
...percentage of people who have "doubts and reservations" about Reagan's leadership has increased from 49% in December to 52%. When voters are asked whether they have "a lot of confidence" in Reagan's ability to provide "real leadership," only 27% now respond affirmatively. There is a gender difference in this rating; while a third of all men have "a lot of confidence" in the President's leadership, only 22% of women do. Reagan has also declined in a broader measure of how Americans gauge his overall performance. When asked to judge him on a scale...
...unequivocal judgments, it would appear that Justice Department lawyers will have a tough case to make. The decisions are, said Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, "courageous and clearly correct." He added that the regulations appeared to violate the constitutional rights of minors and posed problems of "serious gender discrimination" because, in practice, they would have affected only teen-age girls...