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In the natural sciences only 11 of 162 tenured faculty members, or 6.8 percent, are women.
"The situation at Harvard is definitely worse than in most places, but for reasons that are not difficult to understand," he says.
The other eight are male.
Many female faculty say that women in the sciences are hurt not only by statistical inequalities and troublesome policies but by the attitudes of the men in their department. And attitudes are not so easy to document and change as numerical discrepancies.
Barbara J. Grosz, McKay professor of computer science and the only tenured woman in the Computer Science Department, says that women are rarely included in the decision-making process within departments.