Word: sexism
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...author of the staff editorial needs to learn that not everything misaligned with his or her political ideology is malicious. Single-sex education is not about segregation or sexism. Single-sex education is not about replacing the gender-integrated system; it’s about providing an alternative that some students find more fitting...
...cohesion is demonstrated by Women’s Week’s effort to link disparate topics such as “strength training” and “women in music.” Indeed, the one issue that truly unites Harvard women is the inherent sexism in the college’s social scene, yet this matter is given no attention during the week’s programs. The dearth of concerns that unify Harvard’s women suggests that there is no need for us to be upheld or treated as a special interest group...
...putting her at the helm of the organization that has been slowest among the three political clubs to make strides towards gender equity. When Flores joined the UC her freshman year, she was one of only two freshman women on the Council. She said she has faced sexism throughout her time on the Council and does not see Harvard’s student governing body as any more progressive than that of other institutions.“I very much had to prove myself in a way male freshman reps did not,” she said.In the second semester...
...must be understood that schools alone are incapable of determining gender relations. When schools segregated men and women before, such segregation was not the reason that men were allowed to feel superior to women or that women were taught to feel inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within society as a whole, and the schools “back then” did not create the awful sexual stereotypes; they merely reinforced them. And, since we no longer live in a society that promotes blatant sexism, we cannot therefore assume that single-sex classrooms?...
...distinguish themselves, have to call themselves something else. I think it's mostly terminology, that any terminology associated with women sooner or later becomes degraded. An executrix is laughable, an executor is not. An aviatrix is not as strong as an aviator. It has to do with the sexism that is in our society and often is unconscious. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...