{"id":3040,"date":"2009-09-01T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2009-09-01T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:39:03","slug":"does-gender-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/01\/does-gender-still-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does gender still matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3041\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/09\/gender-symbols-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gender symbols\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>In this post-identity age when one&#8217;s sex, race, or ethnicity should not matter, why still speak about gender?\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Linda McClain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/mcclain_l.html\" target=\"_blank\">Linda McClain<\/a>, co-author of &#8220;<em>Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women&#8217;s Equal Citizenship<\/em>,&#8221; says gender still matters because &#8220;there is still a gap between ideals of sex equality and of equal citizenship in the reality of many women&#8217;s lives.&#8221;\u00a0 She makes the case in a two-part series of columns\u00a0on the\u00a0FindLaw legal Website, the <a title=\"first\" href=\"http:\/\/writ.news.findlaw.com\/grossman\/20090831.html\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a> dealing with the persistence of inequality in the United States, and the <a title=\"second\" href=\"http:\/\/writ.news.findlaw.com\/grossman\/20090901.html\" target=\"_blank\">second <\/a>addressing global inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda McClain, 617-358-4635, <a href=\"mailto:lmcclain@bu.edu\">lmcclain@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post-identity age when one&#8217;s sex, race, or ethnicity should not matter, why still speak about gender?\u00a0 School of Law Professor Linda McClain, co-author of &#8220;Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women&#8217;s Equal Citizenship,&#8221; says gender still matters because &#8220;there is still a gap between ideals of sex equality and of equal citizenship in the reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}