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By KATHLEEN PARKER | May 29, 2008
Declaring and debunking crises has become a subsidiary industry of the gender wars. The latest to roll off the D&D assembly line is a study from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) that purports to debunk the idea of a "boys crisis," which followed closely on the heels of a purported "girls crisis." Boys are doing just fine, say the AAUW authors, who also insist that the boy crisis was a fabrication of people who are uncomfortable with the progress of girls and women. The authors also assert that girls' development hasn't come at the expense of boys, as some allegedly claim.
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By Cassandra A. Fortin and Cassandra A. Fortin,Special to The Sun | May 18, 2008
Years ago, Denise Ferguson would drive over the Key Bridge, point at the sailboats in the water, and tell her children, "I'm going to do that someday," while secretly terrified at the prospect. Then one day, she showed up at a boat dock and was asked to help crew. She agreed. "I've always been scared to death of the wind, and I was terrified of even the idea of sailing," said Ferguson, 54, who raised her children in Bel Air before moving recently to Pennsylvania. "It was time I confronted my fear, and they needed a crew member.
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By Pamela Haag | October 3, 2007
I enjoy the serenity of rare agnosticism on the matter of legalized gambling. I can turn the debate this way or that and see both sides. To learn more and perhaps claim a side, I drove to Dover Downs on a lovely spring day last year to see if it would serve up a cautionary tale or a fairy tale for Maryland. It took a few minutes to habituate myself to the cacophony created by 2,500 slot machines whistling, clanking and whirring at the same time. After that, the first thing that struck me seemed so obvious that I could not imagine I had not heard it before.
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By Molly Selvin and Molly Selvin,LOS ANGELES TIMES | April 23, 2007
Although women have made significant gains in education and income during the past three decades, the pay gap between college-educated men and women continues to widen in the years after graduation, experts say. A new report to be released today by the American Association of University Women sheds light on what is holding back many female graduates and what they can do to catch up. The gender gap will remain until more women pursue careers in science...
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By Chris Emery and Chris Emery,SUN REPORTER | October 20, 2006
Elizabeth Beer thought her high school nemesis was math. She took advanced courses, but it was the only subject in which straight A's eluded her. Her real nemesis, she later concluded, might have been her math teacher, who dished out discouragement. "He didn't think women belonged in math," recalls Beer, a third-year doctoral student in the Johns Hopkins University's applied mathematics and statistics department. The teacher's message - that women are innately math-deficient - didn't keep Beer from succeeding in the subject in the long run, but it could explain her early struggles.
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By JEAN MARBELLA | September 26, 2006
We've had soccer moms, security moms, NASCAR dads, South Park Republicans and Yellow Dog Democrats - real or imagined archetypes that have emerged over the years to define the political leanings of various groups. Surely someone now will have to come up with a label for those women who are closing the gender gap - which generally favors Democrats - between Maryland's gubernatorial candidates. As reporter John Fritze wrote this Sunday, The Sun's recent poll shows that Mayor Martin O'Malley's support among women went from an 11 percentage point lead over Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., in July to a 6 percentage point lead this month.