Word: genders
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...average Harvard professor has found it somewhat uncomfortable to discuss race and gender publicly," observes James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government. "The Faculty on a question like this is easily intimidated by its own instincts. They want to do the right thing. But the question is, What is the right thing...
...question reflected "a kind of judgement of the facts that the man was chosen was more interesting and imaginative" than the woman over whom he was chosen. He declines to identify either candidate but says that the charges that departments reproduce themselves have "some truth" in relation to gender...
Still, some professors suggest that considerations of gender, which once acted against women in tenure discussions, now often help female candidates. In theory, Rosovsky says, affirmative action means not only giving women candidates equal opportunities, but also possibly choosing a female candidate over an equally qualified male. However, he notes. "You hardly ever have equal qualifications." Nonetheless, some professors say references to gender occasionally crop up in tenure discussions. Though most decline to give details of such deliberations, one female professor says of the colleagues who chose her, "They claim, and I'd like to believe, that my gender...
Interestingly, the four departments that will gain a tenured woman next year--Anthropology (Sally Falk Moore). English (Marjorie Garber). Psychology and Social Relations (Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psych and Soc Rel), and History (Angeliki Laiou)--all were underutilizing. Department members decline to comment on whether gender played a role in those deliberations, though Rosovsky had met beforehand with the four and the underutilizing departments...
Despite the general view in the administration that some sort of consideration of race and gender should be factored into the hiring equation, just what this "consciousness" should be has until recently remained equivocal. This vagueness has contributed to the University's consistently poor performance in the area of affirmative action...