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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure on Harvard's administration, if applied indiscriminately, can have damaging side effects as well. Bell's ultimatum raises the specter of tokenism in its purest form. Is the hiring of one Black woman proof of a true commitment to faculty diversity? And if Harvard does hire a Black woman to assuage Bell, will she only be known as The Black Woman on The Faculty? Will her role as a scholar be undermined by suspicion about why she was hired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newsmakers | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Nonetheless CCA-backed councillors point to their agreement with Healy on one key move--the decision to hire a city police commissioner--as a sign of increasing cooperation...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Opinions Differ of Success of New Leadership | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...wants to hire a feminist," Kay recalls being told by relatives who said she would not be able to get a job with the words "Women's Studies" on her transcript...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Women's Studies 'First Band Of Concentrators Remembers Trials, Joys in the Field | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

...after three years and hundreds of hours of work, Kay says her old fears have vanished. "Basically, I wouldn't want to work for anybody who wouldn't hire me because I'm a feminist," she says...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Women's Studies 'First Band Of Concentrators Remembers Trials, Joys in the Field | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

...speak Japanese and take Japanese names. In 1965 Japan gave Koreans claiming allegiance to Seoul and their children a special permanent-resident status. The government later extended a similar status to Koreans loyal to Pyongyang. But most banks refused loans to these permanent visitors, and companies were reluctant to hire them. The government did not extend full social-welfare benefits to Koreans until the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan No Longer Willing To Be Invisible | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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