Word: sexism
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This image of Matisse as a decorative, hence feminine, hence inferior painter tended to stick. Ironically, it would be supplanted later by the exactly opposite mistake: that Matisse's gaze on his odalisques in the calm of the Nice studio was the quintessence of male sexism, and that his love of pleasurable objects and delectable color, of luxury in general, disqualified him as a real voice of the 20th century because it was not revolutionary...
While the building got a face lift, one of the departments that call it home had another kind of reconstruction after it lost three first-year women graduate students amid charges of sexism...
Higbie, the Classics Department's newest junior faculty member, arrived this summer at a department whose atmosphere was called "intellectually and ethically intolerable" by two of the departing students last spring. Other graduate students said at the time that they had been the object of sexism in the department...
...sexism remains a way of life in the U.S. armed forces...
Just as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings made women recall their own tales of sexism, so has the Tailhook scandal made females in uniform question their handling of aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy...