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...lauded for being named the first solo female anchor of an evening news program—not the first woman to anchor an evening news show (in 1976, Barbara Walters became the first female co-anchor), nor the first to do it alone (which happened all the time when male anchors have the night off). Every news source leapt to proclaim Couric’s new position as a shining sign of the general progress of women’s roles. And this limited the acknowledgement of her accomplishment. Rather than discussing her reporting experience or ideas for the nightly...
...care center on the University’s Allston campus.STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTThe Office of Faculty Development and Diversity collected demographic data that compares Harvard’s schools to each other and the University overall to peer institutions, investigating questions such as the number of tenure offers made to males and females and the time it takes until promotion.In addition, the office used the 50-item survey of junior faculty developed by COACHE that has been used at other universities, like Dartmouth, to measure job satisfaction through opinions about teaching loads, leave policies, research support, and work-life policies in order...
Some students alleged that the main problem lay not with security measures but with deeper problems with male-dominated society. In October of 1981, SOS chair Elisabeth M. Einaudi ’83 and Peggy A. Mason ’82, chair of the Harvard “Take Back the Night” (TBTN) committee, wrote an op-ed in The Crimson calling for improved safety measures and criticizing the mentality that generated violence against women. The letter praised recent security improvements like the shuttle system and increase in the number of security guards, but it further suggested that...
...Seneca joins the male final clubs the Fly Club, the Phoenix-S.K. Club, and the Spee Club on Mount Auburn St. According to a City of Cambridge web site, the Seneca property is an easement, or protected building, as are many of the male final clubs...
...some social change, which was enlightening for an undergraduate who didn’t feel very empowered.”Faludi enrolled at Harvard in 1977, just two years after the College abolished its quota on the number of women.“It was still pretty much a male-dominated universe,” Faludi says. “Professors would make comments that would make your jaw drop now.”“Sexual harassment at that point was a fairly new issue to be dealt with on campuses, and she wrote a lot about that...