Word: sexism
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...collection of anecdotes about covering the news both soft and hard: the circus as well as political campaigns (because she was dressed in jeans and a parka, George Bush mistook her for a network electrician). Ellerbee talks tough about the shortcomings of her profession and salty about sex and sexism at the office. The saline reporter with a whim of iron is not a pose. This month she spurned NBC's best offer to head for greener paychecks on other channels...
...Edwards, D-Calif., the chairman of the House civil rights subcommittee, said that the high court "recognizes that in order to get beyond racism and sexism, we often must take race and sex into consideration. It's both silly and naive to think that we live in a color-and gender-blind society that would allow the passive policies of the Justice Department to work...
Lakhdhir, who has served on the academics andsocial committees of the council, has spoken outin protest of sexism and council faux pas.After she had resigned, Lakhdhir attended a weeklycouncil meeting to denounce a council forumadverisment that read, "Come Bitch at Us." Shecalled it sexist and offensive and demanded anapology, which she received...
...that's who. I thinkabout New York, I think about Seattle. I thinkabout romance. I think good fortune. I think aboutracism. I think about food. I think aboutreligion. I think about feminism. I think aboutgraduation. I think about the Russians. I thinkabout my cat. I think about sexism. I think aboutmusic. I think about my friends. I think about itall, I think...
...steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages," by being able to entice the students at Wellesley and Lesley. Are these advantages available only to men, or are women also subject to attack by "a squad of Lesley...