Word: sexism
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Failing at Fairness, which discussed the different methods used by teachers to teach boys and girls, sparked numerous scholarly articles and books on sexism, according to the AAUW...
...utmost seriousness as she told me that Harvard, while prestigious, had its own share of problems--especially where women were concerned. More than some of the other Ivies, she said, she had heard that there was still an Old Boys' Network and still a fair amount of entrenched sexism, at least at the faculty and administrative level. And although she'd had students there who had loved it, she'd also known students--particularly women--who'd had more than their fair share of criticisms...
...heard the word 'sexism' for the first timein '68 and the minute I heard it, it kind of went'click.' It made a lot of sense to me," Anne V.Bastian '70 says...
Accusing affirmative action opponents of "scapegoating," Jackson said the nation must address its racism and sexism instead of dismantling the 30-year-old policy, which grants preferences to minorities and women in job hiring, government contracts and college admissions...
...ultimately a matter of messy versus clean problems. At Barnard, sexual discrimination was a clean problem, suicidal depression was not. In Gina Grant's case cancer and car accidents were clean tragedy, child abuse and murder decidedly not. Colleges favor clean cut, easy-answer problems. Sexism bad, car accident sad. Sticky ambiguities, it would seem, are just a lot more of a hassle than they're worth. Gina Gionfriddo New York...