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Another Harvard social scientist, David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, this week jumped on the "women-are-afraid-to-succeed" bandwagon. He says that a report he has prepared categorically shows that women's fear of success rises in their four years at Radcliffe, while their male counterparts' fear declines...
...McClelland said yesterday that even though he is not sure how his study measures fear of success, he is certain of his results, which corroborate the Horner thesis...
...McClelland's findings are part of a massive as-yet-unpulished study being prepared in conjunction with the Office of Tests and Evaluation...
When asked yesterday why the part of the report dealing with women's fear of success was made public, while the rest remained secret, McClelland said, "Women are oppressed because undergraduate men are pigs. We have to publicize this, and to let faculty, administrators and students see that they're acting terribly...
...some members of the faculty, as well as some students and administrators, say that studies such as McClelland's, in which variables and measures are defined rather loosely, only succeed in adding fuel to the hardline attitudes involving women prevalent among illustrious members of the Harvard community...