Word: hydes
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...presentation featured Janet S. Hyde, professor of psychology and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Hyde, who also serves as ombudsperson for the her school's women faculty members, outlined Wisconsin's program to increase the number of tenured women faculty...
Wisconsin began with the appointment of a task force to assess the status of tenured women faculty, according to Hyde. The task force examined each department's situation and formulated a philosophy on gender equity which forced individual departments to take responsibility for their hiring policies, she said...
...philosophy was that "true meritocracy really does mean gender equality," said Hyde...
...Republican Congressman Henry Hyde, a member of the House Intelligence Committee from 1985 to 1990, who was apprised of some of the Administration's covert actions, observes, "In Poland we did all of the things that are done in countries where you want to destabilize a communist government and strengthen resistance to that. We provided the supplies and technical assistance in terms of clandestine newspapers, broadcasting, propaganda, money, organizational help and advice. And working outward from Poland, the same kind of resistance was organized in the other communist countries of Europe...
...account, the gap between men and women for at least some mental skills has actually started to shrink. By looking at 25 years' worth of data from academic tests, Janet Hyde, professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, discovered that overall gender differences for verbal and mathematical skills dramatically decreased after 1974. One possible explanation, Hyde notes, is that "Americans have changed their socialization and educational patterns over the past few decades. They are treating males and females with greater similarity...