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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...
When she began her second year as Radcliffe's president last September, Matina S. Horner scratched every Thursday off her appointment calendar, wanting more free time to work on long-range projects, attend to her academic duties and think in relative privacy...
...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...
Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell, a FORTUNE editor for ten years, opened the discussion with an analysis of America's recent failures, including aspects of the Great Society, Viet Nam and Watergate. Social Scientist David Riesman talked about higher education; Radcliffe President Matina Horner discussed the outlook for women; Bernard Frieden, director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the scarcity of housing. The other seminar participants: Law Professor Paul Freund, Harvard Business School Dean Lawrence Fouraker, Historian Bernard Bailyn, Sociologist Gene Sharp, John F. Kennedy Library Director Dan Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam...
There we'd find Matina Horner...