Word: genderism
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...relatively small number of women senior Faculty often leaves women undergraduates, graduate students and junior Faculty without enough role models. Garber pointed out, however, that junior Faculty members need not always have role models of their own gender...
Faculty demographics are better balanced among junior Faculty in the humanities, where 45 percent are women, but the gender balance has not yet reached the senior level...
Harvard's reluctance to promote from within is hardly news, but Garber said she believes getting the word out will help raise awareness of the gender imbalance...
...Thompson said that although she believes this gender imbalance is undesirable, it is not the result of discrimination in the University...
...have always believed that contemporary gender discrimination within universities is part reality and part perception,...but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance," wrote MIT President Charles M. Vest in his comments preceding the report...