Word: buntingã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women were interested in getting married or teaching,” she said. “That was about it.”THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERAIn 1959, Radcliffe announced the selection of its fifth president, Mary I. Bunting, a microbiologist and a widow with four children.Though Bunting??s power was far eclipsed by then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, Bunting oversaw the final integration of Radcliffe and Harvard and subtly changed Radcliffe’s culture of domesticity. She actively encouraged women to enter the professional world and established the Bunting...
...merger agreement behind closed doors, the gender restrictions of the Bunting Fellowships became a stumbling block. Harvard administrators worried that the single-sex tradition could expose the Institute to lawsuits under federal gender-equity laws, while Radcliffe administrators thought the addition of men to the mix might disrupt the Bunting??s sense of community...
...response to the former fellows’ letter, Faust discussed Bunting??s legacy as the subject of her dean’s letter in the same issue of the Radcliffe Quarterly...
| 1 |