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...lack of senior women in the decision-making process. The most important recommendations for a tenure offer come from a department’s chair and senior faculty, but of FAS’s 30 primary departments, only seven have female chairs—including temporary and acting chairwomen...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, | Title: Still in the Shadows | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

MacFarquhar, who is on leave this year, said he has "difficult acts to follow" and the department has had "a series of good chairmen and chairwomen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gov. Dept. Selects New Chair | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...important to involve as many women as possible in this protest," said one woman after the meeting. The group is attempting to avoid individuals being labelled as leaders or chairwomen by using their names for quotation. "We're going to hold another meeting soon to arrange details, and to formulate a leaflet explaining our position," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest Planned For Graduation | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

...Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates deadlocked, possibly throwing the vote for President into the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chair Ladies | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...will boss the chairwomen of Italy's 12,000 female fasci. The prime tangible duty of their 200,000 members is to help run 50,000 Maternita e Infanzia clinics and many a hospital, which the Government subsidizes. To the poor women who come to the clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Top Woman | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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