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...that matter—as a true equal deserving of membership. "The most insulting part about it is that they’re saying ‘I don’t want you in my club,’" she told me. "It makes me feel like a second-class citizen...
This imbalance of control creates a perverse need for women to curry favor with the men who make the lists. "As a girl, you feel all this social anxiety," another female senior says. "You constantly need to manage your relationships with your male friends in clubs to make sure you don’t get left by the wayside." This dependence consistently and systematically puts women into situations they should never have to experience. A female student explains that the need to remain on final club lists "has sustained certain friendships with guys who are constantly hosting me, who otherwise...
...women are fundamentally different. This promotes a culture in which men are friends with men, and women are friends with women. Neither group is encouraged to interact with the other as equals. The consequences of this are far-reaching. "It’s not surprising that men feel more comfortable approaching other men with a business idea because we’re taught to associate with members of the same gender," notes Katherine C. Harris ’10. No matter how many female final clubs spring up to challenge the primacy of the Mt. Auburn Street mansions, as long...
...third-year graduate student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, served as a teaching fellow for an advanced course in her department last spring, but she says she did not feel completely comfortable communicating with her students...
...House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee highlighted strains in the bond between London and Washington and suggested that Britons stop using the phrase "special relationship" to describe it. But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the U.S.-flavored British election campaign shows that Brit politicians still feel the love. "There is still a special relationship," Cameron tells TIME. "We shouldn't overstate it and we should remember we're the junior partners in it, and we should try and make it work well for both of us." From the evidence of the Westminster campaign trail, the two main...