Word: smulyan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smulyan and other second year public policy students Joanne Markasy and Lisa Posner founded the organization last year, forming a support base for students through brown bag lunch discussion groups and attempts to recruit more women to the school. Since then, its concerns have broadened to include faculty hiring, admissions and community affairs...
...September, Smulyan began working to find members for the panel on women in poverty, while four main co-ordinators arranged for the other panelists...
...school's administration has been largely cooperative, Smulyan said, adding, "As far as schools go, the Kennedy School is as unsexist as a school gets." She added that most faculty members understand the women's movement on an intellectual level, but "many take the women's movement too lightly...
Politics is not one of the group's concerns, members said, although some of them are now working for presidential candidates. "Each can be doing their won thing," Smulyan said," as long as the group support...
...group's future focus will depend largely on the present first year students, three of whom have already been selected as coordinators. "I hope the group keeps a focus on some of the policy issues that affect women, like poverty," Smulyan said. "But internal issues of recruiting and admissions are just as important," she added