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Harvard is "changing slowly because it's a big institution. When you have a large institution like this, the incentive for change is minimized. Sometimes it's slow to change," O'Neill says...
...Harvard the personnel office is supposed to be a service, but the schools themselves and the person who does the hiring has an awful lot of autonomy," says Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for state and community affairs. "It's difficult to say if there have been deliberate strategies. It's not like the president issues an edict that the next three middle managers you hire must be women...
...O'Neill recalls that at her first board meeting of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce the men in the room stood up when she entered, unaccustomed to having a woman join them. "I think they were more uncomfortable than I was," O'Neill says...
Within the University community, however, O'Neill and other administrators say they note progress. Candace R. Corvey, associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for finance, says it is unusual to find herself the only woman at a meeting. Zeckhauser says when she arrived at Harvard, she rarely found herself working with women, but that has changed...
Harvard fencer Jim O'Neill's career was a case of great expectations fulfilled...