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...dearth of women in the sciences.But according to the report, Harvard’s biggest problem may lie in recruiting faculty for the humanities. Martin found that only 34 percent of FAS tenure-track professors in the humanities are women—even though the percentage of students who gain PhDs in those disciplines now “substantially exceeds” 50 percent.The report, which was completed in September and distributed at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, also showed that the percentage of tenure offers made to women is still well below its 2000-2001 high.Martin said...
Others said the revised policy would hinder their efforts to gain University approval. Junior Cecilia Fierro, a member of the Women’s Health Initiative, a controversial pro-choice group not sponsored by the university, said that the policy “sets us further behind in a goal for university recognition...
...Jewett explains his decision to leave the board in an e-mail: “I believe that when one is involved in an activity one must either gain fulfillment or tangible gain; I didn’t feel like I was getting either from being on the board...
...Gaining even a modest amount of weight between pregnancies could lead to serious complications in childbirth, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, examined a population of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had their first and second births between 1992 and 2001. Researchers found that women who gained weight between pregnancies were at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and stillbirth. “It turns out that women...
...interesting piece today on it, if you saw Tom Friedman this morning talking about the extent to which the enemy in this stage in Iraq aim very much at the American people, and public opinion in the United States very sensitive to how to use the media to gain access through technical means that are available now on the Internet and everything else to create as much violence as possible, as much bloodshed as possible and get that broadcast back into the United States as a way to try to shape opinion and influence the outcome of our debate here...