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...dean of the Business School and representatives from a prominent management consulting firm will meet tomorrow to discuss the firm's violation of Business School placement policies in a case involving alleged sex discrimination towards a Harvard graduate student...
...findings released April 8, the committee which investigates all placement complaints for the Business School found that McKinsey and Company violated the B-School equal employment policy which prohibits sex discrimination...
Hang Up. The most striking change is that 1974 is the year of the woman. Says Russell Cansler, director of placement at Northwestern University: "The demand for women is just about the same as it was for blacks five years ago." Indeed, in the eyes of placement officials, the most sought-after job candidate by far is that rarity, a black coed in engineering. After her, in order, come a white woman, a black man and white man. Says Susan Levy, a senior at Boston University: "If I were a white liberal-arts guy this year, I'd hang...
...refused to buy for five straight years. The problem is finding coeds to return the business recruiters' new interest in them. "They tend to get into education, social studies-areas of low demand," says Michigan State's John D. Shingleton, a national authority on job placement...
Most female students complain, too, that they still face discrimination. "Women are asked many more questions than men with comparable credentials," says Sandra Grundfest, assistant director of career services at Princeton. Even so, the College Placement Council predicts that businesses will hire 54% more women graduates this year than in 1973. That big an increase would give women 24% of all the jobs to be filled by graduating students this year...