Word: genderization
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...graduate, Fox Tree is claiming protection from MCAD under Massachusetts public accommodations law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender, sex, age, race, ethnicity and other factors in such places as private clubs, restaurants and hotels. Although the commission will attempt to act asmediator between the club and Fox Tree, it couldeventually rule that Phi Delta Kappa must hold newelections or award the complainant money...
...Kathleen M. Allen says, "it has started to increase again because issues of sex and race are pertinent again." Allen says the publicity surrounding recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions against single sex clubs has put this type of complaint back in the public eye. Most complainants file claims of gender or racial discrimination...
...suggest that the Offical Register of Harvard University and The Harvard Crimson replace the outmoded title of "Chairman" with the more appropriate gender-neutral "Chairperson" in the Courses of Instruction and the masthead of the newspaper. Peter H. Vrooman...
George Bush has discovered women: that they work (hence his proposal in July for a $2.2 billion child-care tax credit) and, now, that they have children. Attempting to close what remains of his once cavernous gender gap, Bush last week came out in favor of unpaid leave for parents on the job. Parting company with the Reagan Administration and his running mate, Dan Quayle, Bush surprised a gathering of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women, saying, "We need to ensure that women don't have to worry about getting their jobs back after having a child or caring...
...meter free, were scheduled for Seoul (alas, it is not), "she would beat everyone by 25 seconds." He adds that if Evans could be persuaded to enter the very long races that are scheduled occasionally -- a 16-miler, say -- "she would beat the men." This may be true. The gender game doesn't prove much; other top women swimmers now equal men's records of 20 years ago. But it is interesting to learn that Evans' 4:05.45 world record for the 400-meter free beats Mark Spitz's 4:07.7 world record of 1968, and that her 800-meter...