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...asymmetry in gender relations. Women can’t return the hospitality that is constantly bestowed upon them. Since they don’t have social space of their own to give or withhold, they’re simply expected to, as one female student put it, "smile and look pretty...
...place to look for answers is Harvard’s peer institutions, Princeton and Yale, both of which possess old, powerful, exclusive social clubs that integrated about two decades ago. These schools’ students do not seem to spend their time pining for the single-sex days of yesteryear. Geoff C. Shaw, a senior at Yale, says that "cohesive would be one of the first words to come to mind" when describing Yale’s co-ed secret societies. Under gender segregation, he believes the clubs would be compromised. "You’d be missing...
...because it’s easier to exist in an environment free from the tensions created by difference. But ultimately, the inclusion of more diverse perspectives also makes for a richer community, and this gain more than compensates for the discomfort of no longer being surrounded by faces that look just like your own. Final clubs were surely more "cohesive" in a certain sense back when they admitted only the Andover-bred scions of wealthy white families, but it was a lazy cohesion sustained by uniformity, and few express a desire to return to those days...
...Business School a horrible place? No,” says Business School professor Regina E. Herzlinger, who was the first woman to receive an endowed chair at the school in the 1980s. “Academia needs to look at women and be cognizant that there are unconscious and conscious biases...
...access Twitter, they generally share an interest in issues of free speech, says Xiao. They discuss news in the unfiltered medium of Twitter and then repost information on mainland blogs and Twitter-like microblogging services. "It is not a fluke," he says. "It's a pattern. The Chinese censors look at this space with great focus and are trying to figure out what to do with...