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...March the FAS Standing Committee on theStatus of Women reported that only 22 percent ofHarvard's tenured faculty in the humanities arewomen, even though women comprise 45 percent ofthe junior faculty in the humanities...
Harvard's main obstacle to full equality is thelack of women Faculty members, Franklin said. "Ithink [hiring more women Faculty members] wouldfix all the problems," she said. According toElizabeth Doherty, assistant dean for academicplanning, in the natural sciences only nine of 164tenured Faculty members, or 5.5 percent, arewomen. Of the entire Faculty, 58 out of 433tenured Faculty members, or 13.4 percent, arewomen...
...think that the message that it sends out isto say that they might be smart, but they arewomen, and are sexy, and can be objectified," saidManaging Editor of the Perspective Julie...
Although the University has made recruitment of women and minorities a high priority in recent years, observers say the changes have not come fast enough. Harvard lags far behind othercolleges in the percentage of its faculty that arewomen, and as the University continues to play thegame of catch-up, it must consider some of thestructural reasons for the lag, these professorssay...
...course they are right in one way-we are expecting them to fill the vacuum that exists in our lives by what we assume to be the fullness of theirs. And yet how few men arewomen "might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely." Not only were they saying that women from minorities need no female companionship so 1200 women is enough while 3000 men is too few, but they were dusting off the familiar tactic of dividing one oppressed group's fight from another...
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