Word: hosken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such case, perhaps, is that of Franziska Hosken, a designer and self-styled urban critic who claims she was refused a teaching appointment at the Graduate School of Design because of her sex. A Harvard Ph.D. in Architecture, Hosken had been trying to get a job at Harvard since the late sixties, although the GSD told her that it was not searching for anyone and that she did not qualify to teach in any of its departments. She applied for "a position" and was refused so many times that Dean Maurice Kilbridge said he would no longer answer her inquiries...
...Hosken was determined to make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more...
...request, Kilbridge says, the GSD "spent hundreds of hours" preparing stacks of personnel records to demonstrate that it had considered Hosken's qualifications along with those of other applicants. That was three years ago--"they go away and never come back," Kilbridge says. HEW will be back, however, in the next few months to get additional information from the GSD and other departments...
...about this sordid matter. Indeed I urge you to politicize this important issue and organize students, faculty and staff and all university members who believe in equality to see this matter through at long last and finally lay to rest this sorry Watergate episode of the university. Fran P. Hosken, Women's International Network
...person registration and what was paid to each panelist? I thought academic meetings held in tax-exempt buildings among people who get annual salaries, as professors, have to be free? Or is the male white academic buddy system beginning to pay each other quite openly? Fran P. Hosken...