Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...push for AIDS awareness among schoolchildren inspired by Ryan White has run into stiff resistance from conservative parents who don't want any discussion of sex, safe or otherwise, in the schools. The blatant discrimination that AIDS sufferers faced in the 1980s may have eased somewhat, but the stigma has not gone away. Witness the meanspirited provision Congress passed last week requiring armed-services personnel with HIV to be discharged from the military, even if they are otherwise in perfect health. President Clinton is expected to sign the defense authorization bill despite this rider, but has made it clear...
Some professors say there is no stigma attached to teaching a class that is considered...
Vellucci says the selection of Cambridge's mayor is typically a long and complicated process and that no stigma should be attached to voting for oneself, as Reeves is doing...
Choi's argument illustrates the main problems with present affirmative action policy. Social stigma has divided women/minority groups by those who accept their membership in a community fighting discrimination and those that are pressured by social stigma to reject associations with their respective minority status. There's a difference between an affluent black. Hispanic, or Asian student choosing not to apply for a minority scholarship and making sure female/minority applicants are considered fairly for positions they apply for. The former is a playing field of real choice, the Latter is one dictated by forces not so fair nor easily controlled...
...Richer, For Poorer confronts the stigma behind the problems of divorced women and reveals the necessity for social reform to confront the decline of opportunity regardless of social-economic background. Instead of blaming divorced women for the country's woes, Kurz scrutinizes the unequal status of women in comparison to divorced men and bravely...