Word: sexism
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...rights is lukewarm at best--he believes a woman should have to inform her husband before she gets an abortion, and once referred to abortion as "homicide." And his conviction that the English Department of B.U. was a "damn matriarchy" (six of 23 professors were women) is just ugly sexism. Weld's positions, in contrast, have earned the support of women's groups...
...most part, Brown said, sexism on Wall St. is not the problem it was several years...
Nonetheless, each of the guests recounted incidents of sexism during their years on Wall Street...
Harper said she has experienced sexism, too. At one meeting, she said, a client told her he preferred to deal with men because he could take them to hockey games or tell them dirty jokes...
Panelist Ed Cohen, a graduate student at Rutgers University's Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, also talked about sexism within the movement. He noted that those first involved in organizing the conference were primarily well-educated, middle class gay white males...