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...chemists, performing what science workshop co-leader Jennifer E. Zora ’06 described as a “fun and tasty experiment” in which the girls made homemade ice cream. During the business and architecture workshops, the girls assumed the roles of marketing executives selling household products and architects designing a new SWSG club building, respectively. The popular workshop on law enforcement was run by four female Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers and involved learning fingerprint identification and self-defense. “Opportunities for women in law enforcement have increased dramatically in the past...
...haven of our homes. But when people actually get home, everybody races off. Mom's got something on the DVD, the daughter's on Myspace.com the son's got his video game, Dad's checking ESPN and his work e-mails, and everyone's compartmentalized within the household. I think there's deep yearning for--I know this makes me sound conservative, but I am--true community, and I think it's not good for families if we each do what we want to do. I think it's good for families if we have a sense of obligation...
Social roles are strongly defined in Indian society, says Krishnan, and people tend not to talk about sex. The social pressure remains intense for men to prove their masculinity and women their fertility. Indian women may be making more decisions about household buying or their children's education, but they remain sexually submissive, still marry early (average age: 17) and tend to defer to men about whether a condom will be used...
Though a newfound cultural obsession with ballroom dancing—most evident in the unlikely success of ABC’s summer reality show “Dancing With the Stars”—has recently made foxtrot, rumba, and paso doble household names, the most celebrated dance at Harvard remains the slightly less sophisticated drunken grind. Thankfully, some new steps will have a chance to make their inroads on campus at this weekend’s 15th Annual Harvard Invitational Ballroom Competition, hosted by the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team...
...characters were obviously influenced by their societies, ones that were structured not to allow women to succeed as independent and confident leaders. Even the most progressive and non-sexist writers of the 8th century B.C. could not have imagined women even having the possibility of asserting themselves in the household, on the battlefield, or wherever...