Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AT first glance, the new set of Harvard admissions figures released two weeks ago seem to give cause for most advocates of diversity to cheer. In a year when the number of applicants overall declined 11 percent, the proportion of minorites admitted jumped slightly (about 1.5 percent) to 32.3 percent...
That ratio, known as FAR, is the proportion of a building's floor space to the size of its lot.
Whenever women don't participate in certain forums in proportion to their numbers, there is a serious problem. Women will continue to be left out of fields that have traditionally been shut off to them. Voices will go unheard, and talent will go untapped.
The report stressed that "gov jocks," who are usually male, were a problem for both women and men in the department. But a larger proportion of women noted that the "gov jocks" kept them from speaking in class. "Gov Jocks" should not be allowed to dominate, and everyone should be...
Among these are the relatively high proportion of women victims in some countries. The male to female ratio in French Guiana is 1.5 to 1; Hondurus, 1.7 to 1; Bahamas, 1.8 to 1, and Trinidad, 4 to 1.