Word: sexism
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...Navy's shipboard culture breeds sexism. Once a ship is afloat, the captain is the master of the universe. Women have little choice but to endure insults. It does not help that women are still barred from combat ships, and only 8,800 of the Navy's 58,000 women have landed spots on support ships. Many enlistees argue that the more women are integrated into the service, the less sexism there will be. "Working together is more important than sexual- harassment training," says Senior Chief Radioman Rusanne Anthony. The Navy's officers also need to set a better example...
...placement of so many women on themanagement negotiation team may have been anattempt by University higher-ups to preempt unioncharges of sexism. Others said human resourcesmanagement is simply a field that women have beenparticularly attracted to recently...
...searing experience during the Thomas hearings, University of Oklahoma law professor ANITA HILL has kept her own counsel for the most part. Not anymore. Beginning in August, Hill will take a nine-month sabbatical to explore the notion of founding (and funding) an institute to study racism and sexism in the U.S. Meanwhile, on Oct. 16, Hill and Georgetown University law professor Emma Jordan will convene a one-day conference on "Race, Gender and Power in America." Hill will take the mike as keynote speaker...
During this arduous process, voices of complaint from American women have been weeded out of the text and papal pronouncements brought to the fore. The current draft proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls...
...life by the throat," wrote Robert Frost. Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...