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Many junior faculty at Harvard and elsewhere succumb to the same pressures as Klein's students, in search not of grades but of the elusive academic grail, tenure. Klein insists it's not a trap she will let herself fall into; ask her about her chances for tenure, and she will reply: "Zero. I don't think I could take any other kind of perspective on it. My way of coping with this place is to really work on developing the very best record that I possibly can so that when my tenure decision comes up I will be able...
Diminished expectations are healthy for other reasons, too, Klein says. "One of the dangers of Harvard is that you begin to feel that there's no place else. Students, even the ones who hate this place, have a hard time accepting the idea that they will not be at Harvard next year and not getting all the perks that come with saying 'I'm a Harvard student.' It's the validation par-excellence...
Though she acknowledges she doesn't fit the Harvard pattern, Klein insists that she's felt no pressure from the University because of her political views. "I have not felt persecuted or sought out because of my politics. I don't think the University is out to get me. I don't think they think about me at all....Given my position, I could be Mao Zedong and it really wouldn't matter...
...more difficult--not because of the administrative discrimination, but because "this has been a men's club." After years of "dealing with women in the context of wife, daughter or lover, all of a sudden they have to deal with them in a new way, as a colleague," Klein says. "For the well-meaning, as well as for those who think women have brains the size of peas, it's a difficult social transition," she adds...
...says. "Do you appreciate those as sexual harassment?" she asks, answering that she doesn't think they are. "Or do you appreciate them as people saying something because they don't know what else to say?" The awkwardness that marks casual conversations may also blight the tenure process, Klein fears. "Women that are as highly evaluated (as men) have to be exceptional. I don't see a recognition that having role models is an important part of an intellectual environment." And there are other pressures Klein says she creates for herself: "I feel strong incentives to always be perfect because...