Word: genderization
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...perform the usual chore of selecting a list of names for the following year's hurricanes. Some representatives are expected to object to the change out of masculine pride. But others might propose French and Spanish names for reasons of national pride. By comparison, the debate over gender could be only a passing squall...
...been making staff cutbacks, and a fund drive has fallen far short of its $280 million goal. Gray seems unintimidated. As one Chicago professor explains, "She knows the faculty and administration and has a sense of the student body's peculiarities." Says Gray, with a fine disregard of gender: "A university president doesn't give orders. He must persuade...
Before the Revolution, women in Cuba were doubly oppressed, according to Figueroa, one of two women in the group and the most vocal of the five. Women in pre-revolutionary Cuba were kept down both because of the social regime and because of their gender. Figueroa said: "Sexual discrimination limited women in society in all aspects-the legal system and the educational system, as well as the mass media, which saw women primarily as a market to increase their capital. Women were taught to occupy themselves with beauty....The whole culture, if we can call this culture, discriminated against them...
Their chief philosopher was Phyllis Schlafly, who may run against Illinois Senator Charles Percy in the Republican primary next year. "The Equal Rights proponents," she charged, "want to reconstruct us into a gender-free society, so there's no difference between men and women. I don't think babies need two sex-neutral parents. I think they need a father and a mother...
Fortunately, this gender confusion can usually be corrected with sex-hormone therapy and delicate surgery. Because the treatment is seldom reversible, a mistake in picking the proper gender can have disastrous consequences in later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual...