Word: grosz
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...Unfortunately, in some departments, women graduate students and postdoctoral fellows report hearing disrespectful criticisms of their abilities from male colleagues and a lack of a supportive environment,” reported the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, chaired by Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz. “Although some female students and postdoctoral fellows of all disciplines face these problems, the problem is especially acute in certain departments, where women are rare, isolated, and sometimes poorly supported...
...Grosz task force’s report will in part reflect the recommendations of a faculty-student working group led by Professor of Physics Melissa E. B. Franklin, Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’67, and Mariangela Lisanti ’05, a Lowell House physics concentrator who is president of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe...
...under-representation of women in science and engineering and to “find effective ways to encourage Harvard undergraduate women to pursue such careers,” the University announced at the time. The task force’s chair, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz, said yesterday that “I can’t tell you anything about the task force until our recommendations come out.” Other professors on Grosz’s task force did not return requests for comment...
...Council also heard a report on the progress of two recently-formed task forces on women at Harvard from Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz, and Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelyn M. Hammonds...
According to Assistant Professor of Sociology and Council member Prudence L. Carter, Grosz also presented the recommendations made by a 1991 task force on women, of which she was a member. While some of those recommendations have since been implemented, Carter said, others have “fallen through the cracks...