Word: genders
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...selection--people drop out, and we vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion" at these election meetings, but that the review has no formal affirmative action plan. Of 65 current editors, 16 are women, three are Black, three Chicano and one Asian...
...from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it's up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol and more like her deserve places on the Faculty, both because they...
Some charge that gender discrimination--like that alleged in a grievance suit filed this year by Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, whose department denied her promotion to a tenured position--has blocked women from advancing into tenured posts. Women, they note, constituted 3.4 per cent of the 1979-80 Faculty (when comparative statistics were last compiled)--a figure below Michigan University's 6.8 per cent. Stanford University's 6.3 per cent, MIT's 5.2 per cent and Yale University's 4.5 per cent. Several say instances of racial discrimination have impeded minorities from gaining promotion toward tenure...
...agree that professors take seriously the task of choosing future colleagues in whom the University may invest as much as $1.5 million over time. But, say some, the process allows such broad discretion at so many stages of the tenure process that the system may lend itself to gender or race discriminations. Others argue that Harvard's reputation-heavy criteria effectively mandate the selection of older professors--and thus implicitly discriminate against qualified younger pools, where greater proportions of women are found. "There are an awful lot of women who are tenurable but are too young," one female junior faculty...
Another female professor concurs, saying that many professors "like their colleagues to be as much like themselves as possible, including gender." Others say male professors put a premium on intra department compatibility as a criterion and often view female professors as harder to get along with, as "difficult colleagues." Women are also more likely to be perceived as "risks"--and, as one female professor says. "Harvard would rather not take in people who may be stupendous than run the risk of making errors." She adds that for departments that have no women, there are probably "about two or three very...