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...multidisciplinary panels saw no deliberate villainy or single cause for blame. "Everyone is looking for scapegoats--the government, welfare mothers, the private sector," says Marina Von Neumann, former chief economist for General Motors. "But there just aren't any scapegoats." Yet the flip side of that, points out Ann Bookman, policy and research director of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, is that "no one sector can take this on single-handedly...
Although the Bunting Institute was not given its official name until 1978, the research facility was founded by former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting in 1960. At that time, according to the institute's Assistant Director Ann Bookman, the program only gave part-time fellowships, accommodating married women just returning to the workforce...
...Bookman says, "it was very clear that women needed full-time scholarships." Then, administrators sought not only to create a multi-disciplinary institute, but also one that would directly aid women in academia, she adds...
...program--which just recently ended--was particularly "designed to increase the rate of tenure" for women scholars. The Carnegie Non-tenured Faculty Program, which focused on the support of junior faculty women, proved very effective in aiding women to achieve lifetime posts, Bookman says. Twenty-six of the 35 women who received appointments in the program later gained tenured positions...
...writers is a relatively cheap form of R. and D. for the studios. Each studio sifts through about 10,000 story ideas a year and pays writers to provide treatments and scripts for about 1,000, 85% to 90% of which will never be made into movies. Says Robert Bookman, executive vice president of Columbia Pictures: "By developing 100 projects a year, you hope to wind up with ten or 15 that are good enough to make...