Word: genderization
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...Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured position. Those who voted against Skocpol--whose book, States and Social Revolutions, won one of the profession's highest awards--said they did so on the basis of her academic work. But some members of the department speculated that Skocpol's gender may have had something to do with the decision...
...selection--people drop out, and we vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion" at these election meetings, but that the review has no formal affirmative action plan. Of 65 current editors, 16 are women, three are Black, three Chicano and one Asian...
Other History professors and Dean Rosovsky--who said he is "delighted" with the appointment of Laiou, who taught her as an assistant professor of History from 1969 to 1972--agreed yesterday that Laiou's gender played no role in her appointment, though Rosovsky's office has recently encouraged underutilizing departments like History to seek women scholars more aggressively...
Though she said she has no knowledge of the department's deliberations in recommending her appointment, Laiou said she is "certain" her gender played no role in her selection. She added that because she was the only tenured woman in the history department at Rutgers College, being the only tenured woman in her department won't be her "first time...
...WORST "fashion statement' is the plaid skirt, which asserts the wearer's class superiority and gender inferiority. Preppie culture has always been patriarchal. Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen...