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...States and Harvard lag well behind global averages in female political participation rates. Countries as varied as Bangladesh, Great Britain, and Turkey have all had female heads-of-state, but we have not. The global average female participation rate at a parliamentary level is 16.3 percent, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The U.S. House—which currently has its highest number of female members ever, 71—only meets this percentage of 16.3 percent. The Senate’s female participation rate is an equally low 16 percent. Until 1994, when Judith Rodin became president...
...from Yale in philosophy and the humanities, an M.A. from Cambridge University in the philosophy of science, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, Hyman was appointed in 1994 to lead the University’s newly created Mind, Brain, and Behavior program, one of the five inter-faculty initiatives started by then-University President Neil L. Rudenstein. When Hyman returned to Harvard in 2001 to serve as chief academic officer, appointed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, he set out to transform the provostship into a driving force for interdisciplinary reform. Taking office “with...
...policy experts familiar with the proposal say it was developed by a "democracy and public diplomacy" working group that meets weekly at the State department to discuss Iran and Syria. Along with related working groups, it prepares proposals for the higher-level Iran Syria Operations Group, or ISOG, an inter-agency body that, several officials said, has had input from Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, deputy National Security Council advisor Elliott Abrams and representatives from the Pentagon, Treasury and U.S. intelligence. The State Department's deputy spokesman, Thomas Casey, said the election-monitoring proposal had already been through several...
According to the summary report, students designated “improving pedagogy and curricula,” “increasing inter-school engagement,” increasing diversity, reducing the cost of education, and “expanding student participation in decision-making” as challenges for the University...
...declared war, he was a senior in Leverett House, active in the Mountaineering Club and involved in the inter-House crew team. He had high hopes for a career in medicine. But those hopes were soon dashed...