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...calls the small slights and blithe biases that alienate women like her: the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions. "They're the very small things that can make a person feel included or excluded in the work environment," she says. She retaliated by overcompensating, taking on ever bigger tasks, traveling, working day and night, until she ran the company's worldwide systems programs. Today she tries to change the equation by working on a program to introduce underprivileged girls to IT as Cisco's director of global gender diversity...
...brushed aside the slur, but the inaction was unbearable. "[Sitting out] tested my faith a little bit," says Parker, a devout Christian (she keeps copies of 25 Basic Bible Studies and God's Game Plan on the nightstand of her dorm bedroom, which measures 149 sq. ft., not much bigger than LeBron James' Hummer). She poured her emotions into journals: "The taste remains, distinct and bitter," she wrote, "guilt, because I was unable ... to put my team on my back." But she took care of business, hitting the books (she made dean's list) and doing physical therapy, which added...
...sophomores and juniors never get punched at all. Blocking groups get split up among clubs. Feelings get hurt. Sometimes friendships are irreparably damaged. And until very recently, women looking for space to call their own basically had no options.Even these objections don’t begin to tackle the bigger issues final clubs raise in terms of the social scene at Harvard. Yes, “social meritocracy” is a somewhat dubious description of punch, which is often arbitrary and, yes, introduces an odd incentive structure with membership as the reward for sociability, wit, and audacity...
...like, ‘No way!’” she recalls. It wasn’t an admission letter, and it wasn’t going to get her an A.B.. But then again, not everybody who leaves Harvard for bigger and better things leaves with a degree...
...graduation of last season’s stellar senior class likely will mean big minutes and bigger numbers from the 2005-2006 juniors, an outfit that Donato has called the team’s core...