Word: genderization
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...After 16 years as a professor at Stanford, you resigned abruptly, charging what you called "gender insensitivity" on the part of male colleagues. Most people interpreted that to mean sexual harassment. Were you sexually harassed...
...throw a scalpel at it and opened it. Now there is pus running all over the floor. What I have done, I hope, is help others open up a dialogue about this. If we can get men and women to start talking to one another about what gender insensitivity means, then we will have accomplished a great deal...
...audience. It was always done for effect. Another common example is that if I have a disagreement with my male counterparts, I generally tend to get the label of being "difficult" because I am suffering from PMS syndrome or because I am "on the rag." That is a gender-identificati on problem. You can't say that to a male counterpart who disagrees with you. These men tend to use the female image and those things that are perceived by society as making women inferior, i.e., the fact that we are different biologically, and they make that the focus...
...have spoken with Kennedy, and I think he is very supportive. I am not sure he was aware that the gender-relationship problems were quite as significant as they are, and I think he has been most surprised by that. I know he has been getting an earful, because I have been getting copies of many letters that have been sent...
This decision goes against a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that forbids gender discrimination in schools receiving federal or state funds. In that case, the Justices said, a tax-supported female nursing school in Mississippi could not refuse to enroll men, since a single-sex policy was not necessary to achieve an important educational goal. Citing the Mississippi case, Judge Kiser concluded that V.M.I.'s goals would be thwarted if women were admitted. His ruling, complained Ellen Vargyas, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center, turns the 1982 precedent "upside down...