Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's obvious that women have been discriminated against in academia, so I have been surprised by colleagues at Ivy League institutions that it's not obvious to them as well," he says...
...roots of this problem--like Harvard's difficulties hiring women at the same high levels--lay in the demographics of academia in general and Harvard's tenured faculty in particular...
...adds that Asian-Americans in particular have been successful at increasing their ranks in academia, but seem to lack a presence in senior administration...
Besides the traditional excuse that academia--and especially the rarified ranks of Harvard's tenured faculty--have lacked suitable minority candidates for administrative posts, officials also point to other reasons for this problem...
Academic initiatives have also been spearheaded. Starting tomorrow, the Harvard Trade Union Program will host a two-day conference with leaders from business, academia, non-governmental organizations and the student movement against sweatshops. The conference will examine ways of working together on the sweatshop dilemma...