Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the use of education, the gay communityhas been able to change its sexual behavior andslow the transmission of the disease, Hiatt said.By contrast, there has been no success amongintravenous drug users, partly because the waitingtime for addicts who want to join a rehabilitationprogram is almost a year. "For up to a year, thedrug users are either disseminating the virus orat risk for getting it," Hiatt said...
Massachusetts courts will decide whether to admit polygraph tests in four different cases currently on trial. The defenses of three cases involving sexual assault and one of murder are arguing to admit defendants' liedetector tests as evidence...
...Kennedy School, recurring problems such as discrimination in employment, sexual harassment and male-female power roles are brushed off as "communications" or "personal" problems. Faculty advise female students not to wage such unwinnable battles as the use of gender specific pronouns. Biases and insults go unchallenged, and workplace issues are overlooked. Positive images for women in public service are virtually ignored. Instead, images in and outside of the classroom reinforce the diminished role and expectations for women. American heroes pictured in academic halls and featured speakers are, with rare exception, men. Program staff, responsible for administrative details and running errands...
...United States Navy recently opened up thousands of new jobs to women following an internal study which found that career enhancing assignments for both enlisted women and officers were unnecessarily limited. It found frustration among its female ranks and sexual harassment rampant throughout the service. The Navy has addressed questions that the Kennedy School should not ignore. What impact does polarization among men and women, and dead-end career opportunities, have on the productivity of an organization? How can problems be identified? What can be done to ensure a work environment which discourages hostility among employees? And how does...
...advocate quotas or the establishment of a consciousness-raising department of women's studies at the Kennedy School. But women must be recruited as faculty and students there. Case studies must be researched and taught to examine positive and forceful means of eroding discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. The successes and failures of women in public policy and management need to be examined as well as those of noteworthy...