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Still, her unionizing activity seems to be the sustaining force in Schroder's career at Harvard, a career that until recently was dotted with disappointments and rude awakenings to the lot of secretaries here...
Because she is from Germany and came to America fairly recently, Schroder was probably less aware than the other secretaries here of what to expect at Harvard. Until 1967, when she left for America to join her fiance, Schroder was a reporter and editor for a newspaper in Dortmund. The set of associations between job and status in Germany and America are different enough that she did not think, as an American woman would have, that it was unusual for her to make a voluntary switch from journalist to mother's helper, her first American...
...Schroder's romance broke up, and after she had learned English fairly well she went to work at MIT as a technical trainee--a job that, contrary to her expectations, turned out to be mostly clerical. She became dissatisfied with her pay and status, and came to Harvard as a secretary...
...been in various science departments here ever since, staying longest in the Physics Department and becoming less and less happy with her work as time went on. Schroder left Physics in October, after William M. Preston, director of the Physics labs, complained to the Personnel Department about the quality of her work. District 65 provided Schroder with a lawyer, and after a series of hearings and a month of paid suspension Personnel resolved the matter by relocating her with Layzer, one of Harvard's most liberal professors. "At first," she says, "I thought I had such a hard time because...
...Schroder's frustration built up over a long time, through days after days. For most of her time here, she dealt with it by finding satisfying outlets for her energies unrelated to her job. She has been working, for instance, on a novel about World War II and the years following it in Germany. The first four chapters are finished and they bear, on the surface, a strong resemblance to her own early life...