Word: mansfields
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...While Mansfield lost the fight in that Faculty meeting, he’s continued his argument by researching social and biological constructs of gender and writing a book on manliness. He even taught a seminar on it this past spring...
...Mansfield argues that the two genders have distinct roles in society...
...Mansfield says the successful integration of women into Harvard shows that women are not inferior to men intellectually...
...Mansfield attributes the rise in Harvard’s grades to a fall in expectations, brought on by the influx of less academically qualified black students in the 1970s. His argument is that white professors, afraid that they would be seen as racist, gave black students high grades they didn’t deserve...
...think it’s an issue that goes to the heart of the University, especially the morale of the University,” Mansfield says. “If we believe in ourselves as an educational institution we must subordinate questions of social justice to that which is best for education...