Word: genderism
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...Week” might not strike you as a miracle, but this is a good thing. This is how it should be, but not how it always was. It is normal that we now have a women’s center and a female president. The historical gender inequality at Harvard is thing of the past...
...fear they would “distract” the boys from studying. By 1977, the feminist movement was in full swing nationally, but it was still a fight for a woman to be taken seriously as a student here. But, after the initial merger agreement with Radcliffe that gender-integrated Harvard College, women began demanding a women’s center. They were the first stirrings of a push that would continue for 30 years. This phase might have been “second-class citizenship...
...black and brown friends. Pictures and statues were of white men, as were nearly all of the tenured professors whose famous classes I shopped. History recounted their stories. There were stories of negative administrative responses reports of sexual harassment and assaults on women. There were a number of gender-related resources (peer counseling groups for issues like eating disorders and sexuality, rape crisis resources, certain tutors sympathetic to women’s issues, the BGLTSA resource center, the Women’s Studies program, women’s and feminist student groups, and more), but these were disconnectedly spread across...
...Harvard was moving toward “equal status” for women, but it was not fully there. The women’s center was to centralize the existing piecemeal resources, support student action and activism around gender issues, and send a message: You belong here. In 1997, Harvard did not feel like “my” place. It did not feel like a friendly place for the women here in 1987, 1977, 1967, or 1957. There has been plenty of backlash to the idea of a women’s center and to the existence...
...time of flux: Mine was the first class to experience the full effects of House randomization, which aimed to end the intensive racial segregation of the Houses. There were attempts to remedy racial disparities, but less attention to gender. Indeed, every time we raised the case for a centralized women’s center, we were referred to the Dean of Coeducation, Karen Avery, whose job was to ensure that “women’s stuff” didn’t interfere with more important work. The higher-up deans and officials were...