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...behind other universities in the extent of its female leadership, and for the first time having so many promising female candidates to consider, this may be the time to bring a woman to the top of HLS administration. Certainly, Summers should appoint the most qualified and promising candidate; but gender is a factor that should be considered in his decision...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: A Woman to Lead Harvard Law | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

...female leadership statistics, on the other hand, are not as promising. Of our 10 top deans, only two are female, and this is only a recent change. In fact, in the school’s 366 year history, these two woman are among the first to break the gender barrier. Drew Gilpin Faust became the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2001 and Ellen Condliffe Lagemann became dean of the Graduate School of Education...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: A Woman to Lead Harvard Law | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

...because women are no longer willing to be the junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise it'll be meaningless." Couples needing a model of marital longevity, however, need look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them the world's longest-married couple. Their granddaughter-in-law says, "(They) hardly had a quarrel with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting At the Altar | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Many of these are stored at what may be the only other archive with original Lynes photographs—the University of Indiana’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Alfred Kinsey himself, a frequent patron of Lynes’ work, is displayed in the show...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Displays Long-Lost Celebrity Photographs | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...what to make of the fact that all are women? There has been talk that their gender is not a coincidence; that women, as outsiders, have less at stake in their organizations and so might be more willing to expose weaknesses. They don't think so. As it happens, studies show that women are a bit less likely than men to be whistle-blowers. And a point worth mentioning--two out of the three hate the term whistle-blower. Too much like "tattletale," says Cooper. But if the term unnerves Cooper and Rowley, that may be because whistle-blowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persons of The Year 2002: The Whistleblowers | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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