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...Horner proved she could, and the students stayed in her class, but for Horner the students' questions were just more examples of how important it was to place more women on the faculty...
...importance of getting women on the Harvard faculty became more than an issue of equality for women but as an important part of the education of men who were going to have to deal with women in the 1970s and 1980s," said Horner. And she said she helped change the role of women on the faculty, as well, making them a more integral part of the University...
Before becoming the youngest president of the one of the country's foremost women's institutions, Horner was a scholar in the Psychology Department, at that time the largest concentration at Harvard. When she was appointed president--after several other candidates had turned down the position--Horner had just completed a study on the fear of success among women and would have been up for tenure in a few years...
...study concluded that many women fear success because they believed that it might make them less popular or seem too masculine. Even as president, Horner has continued her study of how women cope in a male-dominated society...
...Horner is not yet sure whether she will return to the academic world she left when she took over the full-time job of Radcliffe president. She said she will not be around Harvard at least for the first year of her successor's term to give that person a chance to settle in, but she plans to retain her ties to the community...