Word: girls
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...Those who unfortunately argue against this program claim that these few years spent apart might hinder a boy’s ability to relate to a girl, and vice versa, once he or she reaches “the real world.” But it must be understood that schools alone are incapable of determining gender relations. When schools segregated men and women before, such segregation was not the reason that men were allowed to feel superior to women or that women were taught to feel inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within...
...decision as a godsend but also for being too cavalier about procedures with legitimate ethical concerns. Stem cell advocates often make their case on the research’s life-saving potential, stressing the merit of destroying a five-day-old embryo to save a five-year-old girl. But this is an unfair comparison. Yes, the number of available stem cell lines will hopefully reach somewhere in the hundreds, but it will be 120 days before the NIH will even come up with new research guidelines, much less start doling out grants to scientists. Life-saving therapy derived from...
...President Andrea R. Flores ’10 recalled a male member of the UC telling her, “You only won secretary because you’re a cute girl,” after she won an internal UC election...
...really lucky that I didn’t get a job at first, because I really sat down and said, “I have to retrain myself.” When the teachers [at SAB] saw me, they probably thought, “Oh god, this girl is impossible.” They said “Ok, Misa, you really have to do this, and change that, you need to put the hair up and away,” I had bangs, and I just listened to them every day, and I tried to do what they said...
...within the classical confines of ukiyo-e prints is oddly unsettling, as if the artist could not quite come to terms with the new world, and perhaps didn't want to. In one print, for example, a woman in traditional kimono and lacquered hair watches wistfully as a young girl, hair flying behind her, joyfully rides a bicycle...