Gender Discrimination
Gender discrimination is unfair or unequal treatment directed at a person because of his or her sex or gender. It results most typically from the stereotypical association of cer...
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Sexism
The term sexism denotes any system of beliefs, attitudes, practices, social norms, or institutional forms that functions to create or perpetuate invidious social distinctions among persons on t...
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Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the nation...
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With all the women in television news on both sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to the 20th century.Yet recently a CBS News executive, herself a pioneer for women i...
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Paris (dpa) - When former French Socialist minister Bernard Tapie
said he was supporting the right-wing presidential candidate, Nicolas
Sarkozy, for president, rather than h...
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Susan Morrison--a former Spy editor, and so friendly with former co-worker Graydon Carter, and now an editor at the New Yorker--made a wee gibe about a new piece by Christopher Hitchens, which was ...
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Vienna (dpa) - Public outrage among Vienna's female politicians
over public urinals in an underground passage near Vienna's State
Opera has paid off with the offending facil...
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Rush Limbaugh put it best. Contemplating a photo of Sen. Hillary Clinton looking wrinkled and weary a few weeks back, he asked, "Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before th...
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Vienna (dpa) Four urinals which are shaped like women's lips and
outraged Vienna feminists had all found new owners via internet
auction Sunday.
The ur...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - Remarks by a South African labour leader
calling ruling party politicians who support the empowerment of
female politicians "legendary womanizers" drew ...
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NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin had a word in mind this week. "[T]he journalistic community seems to be taking an unseemly delight in [Judith] Miller's predicament and the problems it poses for The N...
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A Harvard University professor who accused the school of gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion...
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Gender Discrimination
Sexism
Sexism, racism: which is more taboo?
