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Though Harvard has not publicly addressed the issues raised by the MIT report, it has been wrestling with similar problems internally for years.
"I 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.
A University report issued last spring says that "the conditions and situations [in the 1991 report] have not been completely--or even substantially--alleviated."
Howard Georgi '68, Mallinckrodt professor of physics and a leader in the attempt to improve the position and numbers of women at Harvard, says that steps have been taken to remedy problems cited in the 1991 report.
"There's been a tremendous amount of progress--there are fewer horror stories now," he says. "[But] we haven't seen a tremendous amount of progress towards real equality."