Word: sexism
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Nelson's recent academic work has particularlyspurred her interest in the connections betweenrace and gender. In lee's course, for example,Nelson has spoken out regularly about sexism infilms by Black directors. Lee challenged her towrite a move about Black women, and Nelson iscurrently working on a script based on her ownexperience as a Black woman at Harvard...
Various law professors have suggested that there is systematic discrimination in the hiring process. Professor of Canstitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe pointed to the parody of an article by murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug in the spoof issue of the Law Review as evidence of institutional sexism at the Law School...
...Sexism, ranging from outright abuse to subtle debasement, is pervasive in the profession. Smith recalls a colleague who invited him to do an exam on a patient under the false guise of a consultation because "she has a body you won't believe." Another physician, whenever faced with an "emotional" female patient, would draw in his notes a stick figure with a lightning bolt going into its head and write down a nonsensical diagnosis of "zigzybiasis," signifying "This patient is crazy." A pediatrician habitually marked his notes with a smiley face when a young patient had a good-looking mother...
Although Tribe also says that the issue of sexism is not particular to the Law School or the Review, he characterizes his judgment as "faint praise...
...this sort of outreach may well be the critics' solution to resolving lingering issues of sexism at the Review...