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According to Victoria A. Budson, the founding executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, there was a great deal of pressure and sincere interest in adding more women to Harvard’s faculties. However, there was still a stigma against bringing women in on a more permanent basis, and so recruitment efforts were directed towards untenured women...
...They were known nationally as the ‘flushable bottom’ because they did not get tenure. They came and at the end of a certain number of years, they were out,” Budson says. “Women were an anomaly, they didn’t fit in to the ‘old boys culture...
...Both Budson and Graham pegged the dearth of women in prominent positions in higher education to the fact that many administrators at the time simply did not believe that women could make “first-class competent scholars...
...fund the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series. This initiative is part of a larger program, titled “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office,” focused on training women to succeed in politics despite gender imbalances, according to Victoria Budson, executive director of Women in Public Policy Program (WAPPP). The program invites female political leaders to speak with students “behind closed doors” about their experiences as women in the electoral process and facilitates skill-training sessions with the nation’s leading campaign strategists...
After a brief question and answer period, Budson was presented with a large card by two blushing girls, and an honorary Strong Women Strong Girls membership...