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...personal level, I am deeply hurt by this unnecessary rejection, coming when the department has several vacancies to fill,” Skocpol said at the time...
...very strong sense of integrity,” says Sociology Department Chair Mary C. Waters, who has co-taught Social Analysis 54, “American Society and Public Policy,” with Skocpol for about 10 years. “She really stands up for what she believes in…if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be here...
...department with no tenured women, someone who stood their ground was very threatening,” Waters says, adding that “in some ways, Skocpol became a lightning rod for a lot of things that weren’t really about...
Barely a month later, Skocpol filed an internal grievance against the department, alleging that she had not received tenure because of sexual discrimination...
That April, a three-person review panel concluded that Skocpol had been a victim of sexual discrimination—but as her application for tenure was being reviewed, then-University President Derek C. Bok intervened on the grounds that he needed as much as three years to appraise Skocpol’s scholarly work and make a final decision himself. Four years later, during which time she served as a full professor at the University of Chicago, Bok granted Skocpol tenure...