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Elizabeth Young â????85-â????86, then president of the Radcliffe Union of Students who served on the Committee on Womenâ????s Studies while the new concentration proposal was being crafted, said she had been concerned about the general status of women on campus: there was a â????very lowâ???? number of women faculty, several episodes of sexual harassment, and lingering safety worries...
...????It was clear that there was no institutional place for Womenâ????s Studies,â???? said Young, now a professor of English and Gender Studies at Mt. Holyoke College. â????We knew there was extremely exciting intellectual work out there that we really wanted to bring to Harvard.â???...
...????It seemed strange that Harvard was behind,â???? she added...
...????Then we really got going,â???? Suleiman said...
...Committee was also adamant that Womenâ????s Studies be a concentration, not a minor, modeling it after other interdisciplinary concentrations such as History and Literature or Social Studies...