Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Horner, the daughter of Greek immigrants, first arrived at Harvard, she was one of only three women on the Harvard's faculty. She said that after her first lecture several male students approached her, saying they had come to her class not because they were interested in psychology but because they had never heard a woman professor speak before and wanted to find out if she could be articulate...
...study concluded that many women fear success because they believed that it might make them less popular or seem too masculine. Even as president, Horner has continued her study of how women cope in a male-dominated society...
Sheerr said the trustees have agreed that the next Radcliffe president should have a strong background either in academics or administration. Many constituents have told the search committee that they would also like the next president to be a women, although Sheerr said the trustees will consider strong male candidates...
...late 1970s, she says, women at Harvard commonly found themselves stereotyped as less competent than their male counterparts. Horner describes being the only woman at an administrative discussion of a complicated mathematical concept. The man leading the meeting asked Horner to say when she understood the idea, as an indication to him that he was making himself clear. Horner says the man had assumed it would be difficult for a woman to grasp the complicated concept...
...believe activism in general is dying out. She says students are working for social and political changes closer to home, where students can make a visible difference--like the one sought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, who has charged the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, with sexual discrimination...