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Pointing out that women are virtually unrepresented in the higher ranks of the faculty and administration, Caroline Bynum, assistant professor of History, Janet Martin, assistant professor of Classics, and three other female faculty members, acting as a steering committee for a larger group of Harvard's women faculty, requested that an eight member committee-including five women-report back with specific recommendations before the end of the term...
According to Mrs. Bynum, the discrepancy between the figures means that "something is working against the hiring of women at the very beginning...
...reason for the hesitation about hiring women is clearly an awareness by hiring committees of the special problems which women face in working out their career patterns," Mrs. Bynum said. "But this awareness usually results in a decision not to offer the job, and conventional opinions [that marriage and family make women a greater risk] then become self-fulfilling prophecies. In addition, hiring guidelines are often applied rigidly and inappropriately...
...common room before-hand informing him that resolutions regarding the draft would be proposed at the next meeting. Furthermore, in reporting the actual vote we effectively disassociated any member not present from the position taken in the resolution. Larry Blum, Resident Tutor Maurice Ford, Assistant Senior Tutor Caroline Bynum, Non-Resident Tutor
John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and David E. Bynum '58, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, are among 11 scientists awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies. The accompanying grants, subsidized by IBM, are for "experimentation with the use of computers as an aid to research in the humanities...