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Aided by a $250,000 grant, Radcliffe officials this summer are mapping out the format of a series of conferences beginning this December on women in the next century that outgoing President Matina S. Horner has said will be her last major project in office...
...late 1970s, she says, women at Harvard commonly found themselves stereotyped as less competent than their male counterparts. Horner describes being the only woman at an administrative discussion of a complicated mathematical concept. The man leading the meeting asked Horner to say when she understood the idea, as an indication to him that he was making himself clear. Horner says the man had assumed it would be difficult for a woman to grasp the complicated concept...
...Horner says this kind of attitude has grown less prevalent during her tenure. "The presence of these women [in the administration] have challenged so many unfounded assumptions that existed," Horner says...
...early days, people didn't know how to find women [for administrative posts]," Horner says. "They were out of the network that identified people...
...think the members of the Corporation would [also] like to see a woman on the Corporation. I think it would be quite likely." Horner says...