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...identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test, nearly 16% more men than women were able to select the right analogy to "mercenary: soldier" (hack: writer...
...husband would "deserve" me; I wonder if my daughter's will put her in the hospital, or even the grave. My parents fretted over buying me a Barbie, and my husband and I will have that discussion too, one day. But whom are we kidding? What's one more sexist image in the current climate of meanspirited misogyny -- Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay, Jason and Freddy, 2 Live Crew -- to which the woman-affirming alternative is supposed to be, of all people, Madonna, who dresses in armor-plated underwear and sings about liking to be spanked...
...more must be members of a minority. Managers' pay and bonuses depend on meeting those targets. One result of such efforts: though the company had almost no female top executives 10 years ago, 17% of corporate officers today are women. Harvey has gone so far as to ban sexist comments from the workplace; persistent offenders are fired...
...trusted on national defense. During the primary campaign for California's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein said that as a woman she would be more steadfast in her support of abortion than her pro-choice male opponent. For that temerity, she was called sexist. The New York Times editorialized that such stereotyping was "precisely the kind of bias that women have fought against for years." (Unsuccessfully, the paper should have added.) One might think that women could be forgiven for taking advantage of bias when it finally works in their favor...
...music hasn't exactly been kind to women, portraying them mostly as malleable sex objects or manipulative money grubbers. But that hasn't stopped Queen Latifah, 20, from finding her voice amid a crowded field of sexist, street-smart men. The Newark-born singer-songwriter has been called the Aretha Franklin of rap for her creative fusing of reggae, soul and jazz. A professional rapper for five years, she sees herself as a role model for young people, and she's as committed to raising consciousness as she is to having fun. "I try to slip in a few lines...