Word: matina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merger merger" pact--as the 1971 agreement came to be known--runs out at the end of this year, when a new agreement must be negotiated. In many ways, Harvard and Radcliffe seem as close to merger as they will ever be. On the other hand, Matina Horner, Radcliffe's current president, has been an enthusiastic proponent of the non-merger merger concept, and Bok has often been influenced by the conservative views of Harvard alumni...
...intelligence. With the same lack of awareness that leads them to believe that Radcliffe students pay a different tuition than Harvard students, they have never fully absorbed the fact that Harvard has been educating men and women in the same classrooms, sections and tutorials since 1943 As Radcliffe President Matina Horner says, Harvard professors don't view Radcliffe women as potential competitors for, and inheritors of, their academic chairs...
While discrimination by males has a great deal to do with the small number of women leaders, women's concept of themselves may also be a significant obstacle. Psychologist Matina Homer, now president of Radcliffe College, found a fear among college women that professional advance can come only at the expense of femininity. To Cynthia Fuchs Epstein of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, what is most frightening is "the punishment" a woman suffers, because of the male-oriented values of society, if she achieves success...
...Matina Souretis Horner, 34. When this expert on feminine achievement was elevated from assistant professor of clinical psychology at Harvard to sixth president of Radcliffe College in 1972, she became an instant role model for U.S. women. Her success...
...what does Matina Horner do? "There are constant staff meetings," she says. "There's the Faculty Council, the Council of Deans, departmental meetings. The Radcliffe departments don't see as much of me as they'd like. I have to meet my dean, Alberta Arthurs, at eight o'clock Friday mornings for breakfast because there's no other time we can get together. And there's always some search for a new appointment going...