Word: scholarshipped
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Women in the Faculty tend to bring new ideas and approaches to scholarship, professors say. Although all stress the impossibility of generalizing about scholarly interests of either men or women, some feel women tend to bring novel view-points to some disciplines...
Like the number of women professors, the amount of scholarship devoted at Harvard to issues of gender is below par, some female scholars...
...think Harvard changes slowly and a lot of the assumptions that are still in place about what is serious scholarship have not changed as fast as they should have," she says...
Some professors say that as a result of that reluctance to bring about change, in both what defines "the best" in scholarship and who is to perform it, Harvard's tenure process is not always a fair one for female candidates...
...activism, and the scholarship, provide a curious if not surprising mix given Goldfarb's background. He comes from a middle-class New York Jewish family. His parents were children of immigrants who valued education above all else and were willing to make financial sacrifices to send a son to Harvard...