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Subject:Re: Gender vs. Sex From:Corinne Stefanick <Temp2%GMP%Chiron -at- LARRY -dot- CHIRON -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Oct 1993 13:14:26 PDT
Your remarks about gender vs. sex reminds me of a portion of the supreme court
hearings re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nomination. When she did her landmark work
on gender-based discrimination, she originally kept talking about "sex". One
of her female colleagues suggested she use "gender" instead since she was
addressing an all-male panel for whom the repeated use of the word "sex" may
create too many mental distractions regardless of the fine-line differences
in meaning......cstefanick
