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More than 100 people waited in the bitter cold for a half hour until fire officials had inspected the building. One engine and one ladder company responded to the alarm...
...There were times I thought I couldn't do it," she recalls. "A lot of it was body mechanics--a big man can pull up a ladder with his arms. While I had to use my whole upper body. I started out imitating their way and had no luck...
...some good will on the part of some members of the Faculty, but we need to institutionalize that good will." WOMEN FACULTY AT HARVARD 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 Total Women Total Women Total Women No. % No. % No. % Tenure 352 13 3.7 352 11 3.1 356 12 3.4 Ladder 221 46 20.8 280 47 20.4 222 44 19.8 Other 76 35 46.1 88 34 38.6 91 34 37.4 Total...
...WOMEN FACULTY CENSUS 1979-80 (as a percentage of the faculty) Tenure Ladder Other Total HARVARD 3.4 19.8 37.4 13.5 MICHIGAN 6.8 25.0 28.6 10.3 M.I.T. 5.2 17.2 9.7 PRINCETON 3.7 20.4 25.0 10.9 STANFORD 6.3 25.7 10.9 YALE...
...cynical professor will ever again be able to dismiss Jane Austen for writing "only" little domestic novels, or diminish Mary Shelley by comparing her unfavorably to her illustrious husband. Gilbert and Gubar have quite simply put women writers in their places, at the highest rung of the literary ladder...