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Founded in 1960 by Radcliffe's fifth president, Mary Ingraham Bunting, the institute began as a means to combat what she called a "climate of unexpectation" for academic women.
If colleges and universities assumed women couldn't be philosophers, astrophysicists or orchestra conductors, the Bunting would assume otherwise--and fund female scholars' research to prove it.
Though Radcliffe officials at times have said that men were welcome to apply for a Bunting position, there is little hint of this in the application materials for a Bunting fellowship during this school year. All of these begin by describing prospective fellows as "women."
And men seem to have gotten the hint. In the Bunting's 39-year history, the institute has hosted more than 1,200 women scholars as fellows and research associates, but only a handful of men. According to Marion Kilson '58, a former director of the Bunting Institute, the last...
But Cohen, who herself read grant applicationsfor the Bunting Institute during the early 1990s,says much of Title IX law is open tointerpretation. With institutions like theBunting, technicalities can blur the meaning oflegal precedent.