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That's what I think the findings mean. It is the responsibility of all of us to take steps to change the climate that makes Radcliffe women more likely on the average to back off from assertiveness as seniors than as freshmen. David C. McClelland Professor of Psychology
...McClelland asserts, tell McClelland that I was opposed to publishing the results of his study. In fact, the results were published in The Crimson twice, once by myself and once by a fellow editor. Rather, I asked McClelland in our conversation why this part of the report and none other had been made public and whether or not he considered such revelations damaging to women's positions here. I accurately reported McClelland's answers to these questions...
Critics of the fear-of-success theory say that women do not avoid success, but rather failure. The McClelland and Horner thesis, they say, is inexact in distinguishing the difference...
...example, Judith Walzer, the director of the Office of Women's Education, said yesterday The Crimson story on the McClelland report presented an unbalanced view of women's situation here. "Radcliffe women," Walzer says, "fear falling flat on their faces and nothing else...
...McClelland said he does not feel his theory lends credence to the argument of women's inferiority, but just documents women's oppression...