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...urging the creation of an alternative class to Social Analysis 10, or “Ec-10,” the introduction to economics course taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Students assert that Ec 10, which is required of all economic concentrators, has a conservative bias. The students support the effort of Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin to create an alternative introductory economics class...
Other schools, such as MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, have taken the initiative to do faculty-wide surveys which have provided data that are shaping the current nationwide discussion on women in higher education. MIT has garnered national accolades for its frank and public examination of gender bias in its own halls...
While Princeton has recently taken the lead on tackling gender bias, Harvard has not stood completely on the sidelines of the debate...
...example, the Harvard chemistry department’s strength is in organic chemistry, which is one of the oldest subdivisions of the field, says Linda H. Doerrer, an assistant professor of chemistry at Barnard College who speaks on the issue of gender bias in the sciences...
Jamison says the institutional bias against academic wives remains...