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...still contend that her gender had nothing to do with her rejection.“It is absolutely the truth that the department was leaning over backwards and really gave her considerable advantage because she’s a woman,” emeritus Andelot professor of sociology Nathan Keyfitz said then.Alessandro Pizzorno, former Sociology Department member and a supporter of Skocpol’s tenure, expresses a similar view. Pizzorno writes in an e-mail from Florence where he is a researcher at the European University Institute, “one could say that unexpressed consideration [of gender] influenced...
...last permanent head of the Population Sciences Department, Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology in Arts and Sciences and of Demography in Public Health, yesterday called Bell "a very able man with a very distinguisehd career.... He's forceful and penetrating and accustomed to getting things done," Keyfitz, who served on the committee that chose Bell, said...
...several members of the department said this week they considered Skocpol's complaints unfounded. "It is absolutely the truth that the department was leaning over backwards and really gave her considerable advantage because she's a woman," Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology, said yesterday...
...Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology and chairman of the committee, said yesterday he agreed with CUE's recommendation. "Some very important work is going on under the auspices of the committee, but the committee doesn't have much to do with it," he added...
Dissolving the committee "would be a reasonable bit of administrative streamlining if another part of the University will supervise the current activities and if funding will continue," Keyfitz said...