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While formal gender bias may be less of a problem academia today, female Faculty members and graduate students say subtle barriers and stereotypes still persist...
Still, many say there are lingering vestiges of sexism in academia, as evidenced by everything from snide comments, to the low percentage of tenured female Faculty...
Camille Paglia, diva to aesthetes, gave her trademark stream-of-consciousness commentary on life, art and academia last night to a packed Emerson 105 lecture hall...
...considering that the houses have been integrated for 28 years, but nonetheless an opportunity for President Neil L. Rudenstine to pose for the cameras with proud, prominent Harvard women. Thrown in for good measure, all year long there's been a speaker series featuring women leaders in industry and academia. And lest we forget, Harvard's new president of the Board of Overseers and graduation speaker are both women, as are Lowell House's incoming masters...
...bank just got gobbled up or why your mutual-fund company has begun offering a hundred new ways for you to invest your money. He popularized the notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance. His legacy has touched every American with a home loan, a credit card or a checkbook. And it has not only...