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...very difficult. There’s a part of the institutional life of Harvard that you just miss out on.”But MIT’s Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology Nancy Hopkins ’64, who has led numerous task forces at MIT that studied and publicized the challenges facing female academics at major universities, said that the survey may be biased towards some concerns among junior faculty and overlook broader problems faced by women at all levels of academia.“The difficulty of having a family the way these careers are structured...
MIT’s Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology Nancy Hopkins ’64, who has led numerous task forces at MIT that studied and publicized the challenges facing female academics at major universities, said that the survey may be biased towards some concerns among junior faculty and overlook broader problems faced by women at all levels of academia...
...important point is that even women who didn't have a problem balancing work [and] life discovered there was yet this other problem,” Hopkins added, pointing to her own research which shows that female professors at MIT, including those with tenure, have historically received smaller offices and less support than their male colleagues...
Today, Harvard students participating in ROTC drill at MIT with funding from anonymous alumni, but Summers has worked to forge closer ties...
...MIT graduate Shirley Ann Jackson has always been a trailblazer: she co-founded the Black Student Union at the university, became the first black woman at MIT to earn a doctoral degree, and also made history as the first black woman in the country to earn a doctorate in physics...