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Eighty members of Dunster House have signed a letter to President Bok requesting that he appoint Caroline W. Bynum, assistant professor of History as the House's new Master...
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...Bynum, a co-author of the Harvard Report on the Status of Women, said that although people are dealing "more rationally" with women's issues, there has been a net gain of only three women to Harvard's higher-level teaching staff. She added that Harvard has "not publically issued any affirmative action programs, has set no goals or timetables, and has nowhere reached the guidelines set in the Harvard Report...
...University's procedural standards have improved in such areas as job placement and the establishment of day care centers," Bynum maintained. But this "rationalization of procedures"--although it has resulted in more self confidence in women--has also allowed discrimination to," go underground," she said...
...Bynum also sees problems confronting male undergraduates, which she attributes to uncertainty about their self-image. "Women have formed discussion groups and have been examining their roles in society, but men have not organized themselves to the same extent," she said...