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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project--a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia--Marie would accept without...
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Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1991, Anita Hill brought testimony and scandal into America's living rooms during televised Senate confirmation hearings in which she detailed the sexual harassment she had suffered at the hands of Clarence Thomas. The male Senate Judiciary Committee refused to take Hill seriously, and the veracity of Hill's claims were sullied in the mainstream media. Hill was defamed as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty," and Thomas was confirmed. The...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from...
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Series
Service in action volume no. 9.116
Publisher
Colorado State University Extension Service
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Discusses how sex-segregated sports policies which keep women from competing in sports with men reinforces the view that women are inferior, even though women have physiological advantages in some sports, and also illustrates how policies construct sex-group differences instead of reflect them.
11) Gender equity
Series
Institute briefs volume 3, issue 1
Publisher
Family and Youth Institute, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension and College of Applied Sciences
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial "everywoman"-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
From hilariously awkward lunch breaks to cringe-worthy Zoom calls, this workplace comedy of errors is sure to put a smile on your face.
Indiana "Ana" Aaron is a talented coder and IT specialist, but she doesn't always fit in at work. When she speaks up one too many times for her boss's ego, she's transferred to a remote team-and it's clear this is her last chance to blend in.
Ana sees working from home as a chance at redemption; she can keep her...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 108
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mallory is delighted when the subject of the new Short Takes class turns out to be children's literature, but she is bitterly disappointed by the new young teacher, Mr. Cobb, who unintentionally favors the boys in the class.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the new sixth grade teacher gives all the good assignments to the boys and treats the girls badly, the girls, led by Elizabeth and Jessica, come up with a plan to theach the teacher and the boys a lesson.
16) Gender equality
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Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the movement toward equal rights for women and men.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered...
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