Word: pellegrini
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...Pellegrini's ('86) stay at Harvard was short and sweet. Despite positive recollections of her two years as a junior faculty member in the English department and acting director of women's studies, the gender studies specialist left the university for an associate professorship at Barnard...
...Harvard has a horrible record of tenuring junior faculty, and the English department has never tenured a junior woman," Pellegrini says. "And I thought given the work I do, I wasn't the kind of woman they would want to start with...
Clearly, Harvard's traditional unwillingness to grant tenure to its junior faculty affects men and women alike. But Pellegrini says her status as a woman specializing in interdisciplinary research made the prospect of internal promotion at Harvard even more remote...
...Pellegrini's research been in the hard sciences, her departure would have undoubtedly been seen as a casualty of a culture of discrimination against women in the field...
...this pattern makes the task of remedying historic inequalities much more difficult. And many talented female scholars who come to Harvard early in their careers--like Pellegrini--are lost for good when their career prospects become apparent...