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...number of tenure offers Harvard made to women increased this year for the first time during Lawrence H. Summers?? presidency, reversing a three-year decline that resulted in only 13% of offers going to women last year...
...increase comes during a year in which professors publicly questioned Summers?? commitment to gender diversity, not only because of the downward trend in tenure offers made to women, but also in response to the president’s controversial January remarks on women in science...
...Arts and Sciences (FAS) during the 2004-2005 academic year, nine of those, or 27 percent of all offers, went to women. By contrast, in the previous year only four of 32 offers, or 13 percent of all offers, went to women. And during the first two years of Summers?? presidency, the proportion of tenure offers made to women fell from 26 percent of all offers in 2001-2002 to 19 percent of all offers...
These numbers contrast with those of the last years of the presidency of Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers?? predecessor. During the 1999-2000 year, 34 percent of all offers went to women, and during the 2000-2001 year—Rudenstine’s last year—36 percent of all offers went to women...
...William C. Kirby, it did not begin to boil until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences. The firestorm over those comments—and over broader concerns with Summers?? leadership that were voiced in a series of contentious Faculty meetings—culminated in a March 15 FAS vote of no confidence in the president’s leadership...