Word: genderization
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Harvard and Radcliffe have made great progress towards gender equality, she said, noting that under Bok's tenure the number of women professors at Harvard has increased from one to 38. But she qualified her praise by cautioning that there is still much to be done...
...life, Wilson has made frequent reference to her "grand strategy" for Radcliffe. She has not yet publicly defined this strategy, but her actions give much hint as to its nature. It likely involves moving Radcliffe further onto the national research scene. Wilson's recent proposal for a gender and public policy institute, for example, promises to bring much needed money to the institution. This step was a good one--if Wilson is driving to make Radcliffe a research center. But if that is Wilson's major goal, why doesn't she just...
...petition calls for the creation of a multi-room facility, preferably located in or near Harvard Yard and staffed by a paid director. Aside from acting as a central information and support service for women, such a center would provide Harvard with a new forum for discussing issues of gender and society, organizers said yesterday...
There is, as is always the case when money is being handed out anywhere, a certain amount of logrolling and favoritism among the peer groups that review applications, and a peevish sense of entitlement among many applicants on the basis of class or race or gender. But the NEA's peer-group system has at least the merit of being a tad more democratic and informed than the fiats of a minister...
...Denial of equal opportunity on the grounds of race, gender, religion, nationality or political affiliation (among other criteria) has long since been barred. Discrimination based on sexual orientation thus reamins a curious anomaly...