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...task forces on women. The forces were created in the uproar following outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ Jan. remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude” of women for science.Hammonds said the childcare initiatives are intended to seal the “leaky pipeline?? present at Harvard, in which the percentage of female faculty falls from at least one third to less than a quarter from the junior to senior ranks.The trend is visible across most of the University’s schools, according to demographic data presented in the report...
Hammonds said the childcare initiatives are intended to seal the “leaky pipeline?? present at Harvard, in which the percentage of female faculty falls from at least one third of tenure-track professors to less than a quarter at the tenure level at the majority of the University’s schools. The differences are especially drastic in certain disciplines; the report includes data showing that in the natural sciences, 25 percent of the faculty on the tenure track in the 2005-2006 academic year was female. But women represent only 8 percent of tenured professors...
...study will examine what Goldin and Katz have called the problem of “the pipeline?? that carries college graduates to successful careers...
Summers has been promoting life science initiatives as “in the pipeline?? since last year, but no progress has been announced. One proposal for a Harvard-MIT collaboration headed up by MIT Professor Eric Lander was reviewed by the Corporation yesterday, but Summers and Hyman refuse to comment on their plans...
...four years, and she taught a Core class. While the balance of professors in the humanities seem to be moving towards reasonable numbers, the numbers of tenured women in the sciences at Harvard is ridiculous. It is hard to make arguments about a lacking “pipeline?? of women students in the sciences, given that graduate students are usually at least half women. Women tend to leave sciences before taking on post-doctoral studies, a phenomenon that the University should take the lead in preventing. The ethnic diversity of the faculty (and House administration, as many have...