Word: sexism
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...only as I grow older and struggle with my own plans and desires to "save the world" from the evils of racism, sexism, homophobia and capitalism, that I have begun to see this man as a shining example of what can be achieved through passion and perseverance. In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 28 years. He was sent there because he chose to fight against repression. He did what so many activists and proto-activists claim, by struggling to bring change to a country which exploited its labor, wrongfully imprisoned its citizens and encouraged full-scale segregation...
...conference also features a series of panels on such topics as media, government and business. All of the panels center around challenges women may face in the workplace, including the struggle to balance work and family as well as sexism...
Still, a gate or a glossy brochure does not satisfy everyone. Many say that until Harvard increases the number of its tenured female faculty, creates a 24-hour rape crisis center like many of its Ivy peers and addresses issues like sexism in the classroom, the College's efforts to promote gender equality in undergraduate life this year are only empty gestures...
...Kemp's reputation, the Radcliffe dean allowed my friend to take a fifth course the following term to make up her failing grade. I don't know whether the Radcliffe administration, headed by President Wilbur K. Jordan, a Harvard professor, ever confronted the Harvard administration for tolerating such blatant sexism, but I never heard that Mr. Kemp was reprimanded, nor that he changed his classroom style...
...some say being seen as a feminist may add to sexism as well...