Word: socio
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...forced to enter a hospital until she was free of desease. The enforcement of these acts, particularly the brutal medical inspection which many women were forced to undergo, horrified the repeal of the acts, she visited prisons and workhouses and came to understand prostitutes as victims both of their socio-economic circumstances and of a moral code which made them criminals but placed no blame on the men they consorted with. The acts were eventually repeated, but not before Butler had endured a good deal of public scorn...
Consequently any attempt to deal effectively with the problem of sexual harassment must begin with the recognition that, fundamentally, sexual harassment is a socio-political, rather than sexual, issue Harvard, the socio-political climate which eaves rise to sexual harassment can best be described by the following statistic currently only 23 (5.8 percent) censured faculty are women. There is a huge discrepency between this figure and the fact that approximately 40 percent of the student population is composed by women. And while the percentage of women who are junior faculty members is higher they of women with teaser there...
...sexual harassment, that is ignoring this power imbalance, leads to a situation where sexual harassment, the symptom, is treated as the disease itself. Sexual harassment must not be taken out of context. Just as the higher incidence of crime in depressed areas may not be divorced from the the-socio-economic conditions which influence the statistic, sexual harassment may not be seperated from its larger framework, namely a university top-heavy with male faculty, leaving women in positions of powerlessness and vulnerability. The continuing position of women as the "lesser, as the "subordinate" in student-faculty and faculty faculty professional...
Sullivan said last summer that linkage would be a mechanism for slowing downs Cambridge's gentrification--the displacement of the city's traditionally socio-economically and racially diverse population...
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Harvard's stance is that they continue to profess a desire to preserve Cambridge's socio-economic and ethnic and racial diversity in spite of threatening that already precarious diversity by buying up all the property within its reach each and by trying to circumvent rent control. Now that Craigie Arms is behind us, it's time for the University to end its charade...