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...Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Catherine G. Krupnick published "Women and Men in the Classroom: Inequality and Its Remedies," a study that revealed that under male teachers, men speak nearly two and a half times as long as women. The examination of 24 Harvard professors across disciplines also showed that under female teachers, women speak for nearly three times longer than in classes with male faculty members...
...Catherine G. Krupnick, former director of the Danforth Center for Teaching, studied 24 Harvard sections and found that in all cases, men spoke more than women. In predominantly male classes taught by male professors, she found that men spoke 2.5 times longer than women...
Many other studies at different universities have reached similar conclusions. And last spring at a Harvard conference on gender and learning, Krupnick and others testified that substantial gender inequality persists in classrooms today...
...study, Krupnick found that women talk more frequently after other women talk. In a classroom "gender run," men dominate discussions for a substantial period of time until a woman breaks in; the woman's comment initiates a relatively short series of remarks by female students. When a man rejoins the discussion, the cycle begins again...
...boost women's confidence. If there are few female role models, women have little to strive for, little to emulate and no sense that being a Harvard professor is attainable. The obvious solution: tenure more women faculty and recruit more women graduate students. If, according to Krupnick's survey, women will only participate a lot in sections with a female majority and a female section leader, then certainly there should be more women teaching fellows--and maybe even the option of a majority female section...