Word: sexism
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...English, reminds us that "human beings are incomplete unless they can stare out windows, seeing a world beyond what the eye can behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then our entire education will have been...
Hollywood's version of the old-boy network does appear to be engaged in an insidious form of hazing. "I think there is a fair amount of sexism and reverse ageism at work here," says Ted Harbert, Tarses' predecessor as ABC Entertainment chief. "That gets the skeptics going full speed." Still, her detractors say her behavior in the job has not helped her cause. They describe Tarses as both insecure and out of her depth, driving underlings hard and treating former friends and colleagues shabbily. She raised eyebrows by ordering two pilots co-produced by her boyfriend, former Letterman executive...
Texaco oil company executives use racial terms [DIVIDING LINE, Nov. 25], and California has voted to end affirmative action. A new approach will have to be developed to end job discrimination and promote equal opportunity. I suggest that the victims of racism and sexism vote with their dollars. Those companies that do not hire and promote minorities and women at all job levels in a way that reflects their percentage of the population should be boycotted. Those companies that do not use the services and products of minorities and women should be boycotted. The American people can then decide whether...
...will not, ever come to believe that idealism is a bad thing. There is nothing wrong in believing and wanting to improve the situation of those around us. Of course, I am not blind to the social realities of racism, sexism and cultural misunderstandings; if I were, I do not think that I would have ever chosen to volunteer in the first place...
...Proposition 209] denies the fact that sexism and racism exist," said Veronica Terriquez '97, the co-chair of Latinas Unidas. "The average Latina woman with a college degree earns the same salary as a white man without a college degree...