Word: genderization
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...Denial of equal opportunity on the grounds of race, gender, religion, nationality or political affiliation (among other possible criteria) has long since been barred," the letter said. "Discrimination based on sexual orientation thus remains a curious anomaly...
Battling what they describe as a "little-sister" mentality toward Radcliffe, an ad hoc committee of Radcliffe alumnae has stepped forward to register its opposition to gender barriers at the University and lobby for increased hiring of women faculty and administrators...
Schmertzler said she and the others frequentlydid not question gender discrimination when theywere students at Radcliffe, but now they areanxious to address the issue...
...Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original, and refrained from calling God the King...
...obstacle in many disciplines, according to various studies, is not simply racial or gender discrimination but also a scarcity of qualified candidates. Of 3,553 doctorates offered in the humanities in 1988, for example, 2,791 went to whites, and only 110 to blacks, 138 to Hispanics, and 197 to Asians. Last year the Washington-based National Research Council reported that of 13,158 Ph.D.s awarded in the sciences, only 275 went to blacks. Although black university enrollment has increased slightly in the past year, chances for substantial improvement are hardly promising...