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...manifest small motor control at an earlier stage than boys. During reading circle at the library, they might sketch or color; the boys, meanwhile, might wrestle. In early grades, the school environment is conducive to the orderly, attentive female members of the class, not to the physically active male members...

Author: By Diana Meehan, ph.d | Title: Sex, Education, and Government | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

Boys’ schools take into consideration normal male behavior and design the day around them. They can be counter-stereotypical, providing role models of men who mentor, who challenge, who inspire, sometimes by their evident affection for Cicero or the piccolo, for physics or Sandburg or ceramics. Manly examples of adults who have chosen without reluctance to teach and to pursue a passion that is not rich in monetary reward but, here at least, socially respected, gives children the opportunity to learn “there are many ways to be a boy,” as the Allen...

Author: By Diana Meehan, ph.d | Title: Sex, Education, and Government | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...does my experience last spring relate to this year’s male-dominated UC ballot? After all, this election may simply be an anomaly, considering that last year, two of the three UC vice presidential candidates were women. However, the connection that I see between the two occurrences is in how campus figures have reacted to the lack of women running for the UC. The answer to the "problem" of female representation is not a problem that needs to be retroactively addressed by male members of the UC, as some candidates have suggested. This issue does not call...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Elephant on the Ballot | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Harvard, I’ll settle for you not addressing the issue of all-male social spaces that you continue again and again to ignore. I’ll settle for having to yell in history section in order to be heard over the smothering male cacophony that is unwilling to pause and hear my voice. I’ll settle for a male UC president, vice president, and even a male president of the University...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Elephant on the Ballot | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...this same vein, I am willing to wager that the reason many women choose not to run for the UC is not because they are blatantly discouraged from doing so by their male counterparts, but because they would just rather not involve themselves in the "sausage-fest of the year." This begs the question: Why don’t more women run for the UC? Overt sexism is on the decline in the Harvard community. Rarely will you encounter someone on campus who is outspoken and secure in his or her discrimination against women. However, certain aspects of Harvard?...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Elephant on the Ballot | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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