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Nonetheless, the OWE's summary of its first year reveals a number of studies completed or in progress, and several projects that will form the basis of the office's work in the future. Because this work ranges from studies on the academic fields in which women concentrate to an afternoon session on "crimes against women," from investigating the amount of prize money available to women to hosting a special national conference of women historians next fall, the immediate question is, what does "women's education" mean to Radcliffe administrators...
...Arthurs's view, the OWE does have a coherent mission, which may be best defined in terms of what it is not: It does not function as a dean of students office, nor is it especially concerned with collecting every conceivable fact about Radcliffe women...
Walzer cites this past year's study of concentration patterns as a model of the kinds of information-gathering the OWE will undertake in order to better help women here. "The office doesn't have the setup, nor ought it, to do extensive social science research," she says. "But we should be able to get the facts so that we can argue that certain myths about women aren't true. Once we find out what the story is, then we can do something about...
Through an investigation of the majors of Radcliffe women over the past decade, for example, the OWE learned that the number of men concentrating in the sciences has dropped since the Sputnik era, that the number of women in some sciences has gone up, and that recently the number of male English concentrators has topped the number of women in English. "We learned that some of the myths are true, but not to the same degree that people believe them to be true," Walzer said...
...apart from these general observations, the OWE uses its information to focus on specific groups of women--in this case, women who major in academic areas considered non-traditional for women. This year the office sponsored meetings for prospective women concentrators in Economics, Government and the physical sciences with women Faculty, graduate students and research associates in those departments. "If I can believe all that I've heard since those meetings, the freshmen found them very helpful," Walzer says. "And the women graduate students, junior Faculty and senior Faculty were both willing and enthusiastically positive...