Word: sexism
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ALIGNING Barbara Bush's flaws with George Bush's flaws might be regarded as sexism. It is not. Wellesley invited Barbara Bush to Wellesley only because she is identified with the Bush Administration. Any other adult literacy advocate would have been ignored. Criticism of the Bush record on women, then, includes criticism of Barbara Bush...
...That was done, and the evidence was prettyoverwhelming that there was discrimination," saysNewdick, citing the percentage of tenured womenfaculty and the Radcliffe Union of Students surveyreport in which 67 percent of upperclass womenstudents reported experiencing sexism in theclassroom...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which surveyed American colleges for a year before compiling Campus Life: In Search of Community. Though the report's language is muted and scholarly, its message is loud and clear: the "idyllic vision" of college life "often masks disturbing realities," including racism, sexism, homophobia and anti- Semitism...
...requiring a Jewish pledge to dress in a Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University of Southern California, "because, unfortunately, sexism is still an accepted form of bigotry...
...understand it, although most of the Tuesday issue was intended just to shock people, many articles were also designed to startle Harvard out of its complacency about a few persistent social problems (homophobia, sexism and anti-Semitism...