Word: genderization
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...women. Despite the growing number of women entering politics in the U.S., the country is just beginning the journey toward full equality. In the West, women like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland have had to struggle against the traditional demands of gender in order to impress their visions on national policies. For decades the Communist states of Europe boasted of political egalitarianism, making a show of filling token government posts with women. But revolution has torn down the facades, revealing just how cosmetic was the "power" shared by the East's women...
Some critics argue that Gilligan and her colleagues overemphasize the importance of gender. "Gilligan's wrong about any sex differences in moral thought," declares Eleanor Maccoby, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford. What the revisionist scholars are mapping, she contends, is the influence of socialization -- meaning that society expects different things from the sexes and trains them differently. Class, education or ethnic background may be more important than sex in shaping psychological growth. The new theorists are "overgenderizing," says Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, a sociologist at City University of New York. "Seeing distinctions and stereotyping are so much a part...
...break out of the gender stereotypes? Clearly, there is a need for some male conciousness raising, yet men have nothing to rival the giant grass-roots movement that began razing female stereotypes 25 years ago. There is no male equivalent for the National Organization for Women or Ms. magazine. No role models, other than the usual megabillionaire success objects...
...rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender in a society saturated with sexual violence and victim blaming...
...hard to get them in the habit of making campaign contributions and doing it for more than spare change." Nonetheless, fund-raising operations -- notably EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast), the Hollywood Women's Political Committee and the Women's Campaign Fund -- are slowly changing the gender deficit. EMILY's List, founded by Ellen Malcolm, has raised more than $800,000 in 1990, in contrast to $650,000 two years earlier. Special-interest groups like the National Abortion Rights Action League have formed political-action committees that contribute heavily to pro-choice candidates...