外刊精讲丨经济学人：反单性别

Under new rules, introduced in 2016, members of what Harvard’s administration calls “unrecognised single-gender social organizations” are no longer eligible for campus leadership positions (such as captaincy of sports teams) or for dean’s letters of recommendation for scholarships such as the Rhodes or Marshall.

If the organizations went mixed, their members could escape these sanctions. Delta Gamma has closed; all but one of the other sororities have either followed suit or, in a few cases, gone mixed. 

But the remaining single-sex organizations have not given up. Last month, a group of them filed two lawsuits against Harvard, one in a federal court and one in a Massachusetts court, to which the university will respond next month.

文本选自：The Economist（经济学人）

作者：Editor

原文标题：Harvard’s policy against single-sex clubs is not working

原文发布时间：15 Jan. 2019

背景知识：

美国多个大学的兄弟会和姐妹会就一项阻挠学生加入单一性别组织的规定起诉哈佛大学，这是首次对哈佛大学规定发起法律挑战。据美国全国广播公司4日报道，两个兄弟会和两个姐妹会联合向波士顿联邦法院提起诉讼，另一姐妹会在马萨诸塞州法院起诉，控告哈佛大学基于性别歧视的政策以及传播加入全男性或全女性组织的学生的负面形象。诉状称，“哈佛大学的观点认为全女性或全男性组织没有价值，是极端的性别歧视。”两起诉讼都要求法院阻止哈佛大学执行这项规定。据悉，从去年开始，哈佛规定如果学生加入单一性别组织就会被禁止领导校园团体或校运动队，而且这些学生无法获得奖学金。自从这条规定生效以来，至少有三个姐妹会同总部断绝联系，重新开放为男女兼收组织。哈佛大学尚未对此发表评论。