Word: genderization
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...worry that a son who doesn't play with dolls will never be a caring, involved father. Nonsexist, writes Pogrebin, is not the same as unisex or sexless. It is a way of freeing individualism, of "opening all possibilities to children so they are not predestined by gender...
What is the difference between gender identity and sex-role identity? Can a child's sexuality be affected by whether or not Father does the dishes or Mother drives a truck? "Unwittingly, the feuding experts and conflicting experiments testify to the truth: we will never have a Sears catalogue of sex differences because human beings are too diverse for labels and measurements," writes Pogrebin. "For every trait studied, the differences within each sex are greater than the average differences between the two sexes...
...incorrigible off-spring of a Harvard-Radcliffe marriage, has become more and more popular each year, because apart from the sheer joy of tearing about a grass field flailing a wooden stick in the air, it provides a rare instance of mutual participation and cooperation uncomplicated an unaffected by gender...
...secretive aspect of the system often gives the impression that decisions are made using unfair criteria--such as gender--particularly when departments recommend against promotion for their own associate professors. Because the "first order of eminence" guidelines are vague and because the senior faculty members who take part in departmental tenure votes discuss those decisions about as readily as the government provides top secret military information to the Kremlin, rejected junior faculty members often have only a hazy, idea of why their departments didn't want them. In the Skocpol decision, for example, James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology...
...male-dominated work places, secretaries and other office-workers have long endured the indignity of being told exactly what women could and could not do. As the victims of America's 350-year plunge into slavery. Black women bear a tragic legacy unknown to any other member of their gender in this country...