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...hiring tenured women in the University's 345-year history. Harvard appointed four female professors, who will boost the number of tenured women to an unprecedented 16 when they assume their posts July 1. That burst prompts Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to Rosovsky for affirmative action, to cite 1980-81 as a "breakthrough year...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Slow Motion On a Tenure Track | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Some professors cite Skocpol as a female junior professor who suffered from departmental male biases. "Theda is a very good case to talk about standards," one female professor says. "Objectively she's attained all the outward trappings of it--all the external credentials, all the awards, her book's got fabulous reviews. Since she's clearly made the standards, people are pretty upset...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Slow Motion On a Tenure Track | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Civil rights advocates cite the continuing Justice Department objections to proposed election laws as evidence that the Voting Rights Act indeed is still necessary. Shelving it would mean that each disputed proposal would have to be challenged in court; meanwhile, the new law would be in effect until the court acted. As former Mississippi Governor James Coleman said in 1960: "Any legislature can pass a law faster than the Supreme Court can erase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pondering the Voting Rights Act | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...situation has a self-perpetuating appearance, when many collegiate male coaches cite the lack of AAU coaching experience as the reason for the women losing out on jobs...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Riding Out the Rough Waters | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...fact, I have never advocated anything of the kind. What I have stated on numerous occasions is that Soviet leaders, having formulated a war-fighting nuclear strategy, consider nuclear superiority desirable. Then, in response to the question on what "nuclear superiority" meant, I answered with the phrase you cite: "Convincing your opponent you are willing to use this force." This is the view of Soviet leaders, as rendered by me, not my own opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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