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...Crimson has shared the results of its survey and its statistical analysis with economists and political scientists who specialize in gender issues. Experts agreed that the evidence shows a significant gender gap in first-year wages...
...think this is important information that warrants attention,” Associate Professor of Public Policy Hannah Riley Bowles, an expert on gender at the Kennedy School, wrote in an e-mail, though she warned that the $10,000 gap “sounds a little high...
...Part of the gap stems from the fact that males are more likely to enter lucrative sectors such as investment banking. Males also are more likely to graduate with degrees in economics, computer science, and other fields that are attractive to employers. But even controlling for industry sector and academic background, males appear to earn about 8 percent more than their female classmates, according to The Crimson’s analysis...
...While a rigid, hierarchical gap between the perceived importance of events on the field of play and events in the classroom was growing only larger, a glaring gap of another kind—despite an initial step by Harvard in the direction of change—has made little in the way of progress since...
...just as addressing racism is more complex than ensuring 10 percent of a Harvard class is black each year. While overt cases of racism at Harvard and elsewhere are indeed egregious, they are manifestations of institutional racism in America. Take a look at high school graduation statistics, the achievement gap, or conditions in inner-city schools, and it is clear that the effects of racism run much deeper...