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...Right now there’s this great sense of urgency around these issues,” Grosz says. “The major challenge is going to be sustaining that energy. I hope that will happen through setting up various accountable structures, so maybe we won’t have to operate in panic mode,” Grosz continues...
...Transition Committee—composed of Grosz, Professor of the History of Science and African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds, chair of the Task Force on Women Faculty, and Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—will work with administrators to figure out how to implement the rest of the task force recommendations and delegate responsibilities, according to the reports...
...Grosz chaired the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Women, which produced a report on women in the sciences at Harvard that foreshadowed some of the recommendations released by the task forces last month. The 1991 report expressed concern over how departmental environments affect female faculty members and graduate students and focused on the problems that accompany women along the career pipeline in the sciences...
...Grosz says that while some of the recommendations of the 1991 report were implemented—including an emergency child care program for faculty members—many of the recommendations, such as mentoring programs for junior faculty members, fell by the wayside as departments lost sight of the proposals’ importance...
...report recommendations were implemented initially, and then memories faded,” Grosz says...