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...have shown some trend towards more genuine compliance: four previously all-male departments--English, History, Anthropology and Psychology--each hired a women for a tenured professorship. Such efforts should continue, and the current review by the administration of the Sociology Department, whose denial of tenure last year to Theda R. Skocpol, former associate professor of Sociology, seems to reflect sexism, conscious or otherwise, should be particularly exhaustive...
President Bok will delay a ruling on tenuring sociologist Theda Skocpol for as much as three years while be studies her record as a scholar and reviews the "needs and priorities" of the Sociology Department...
There are a host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure...
Some charge that gender discrimination--like that alleged in a grievance suit filed this year by Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, whose department denied her promotion to a tenured position--has blocked women from advancing into tenured posts. Women, they note, constituted 3.4 per cent of the 1979-80 Faculty (when comparative statistics were last compiled)--a figure below Michigan University's 6.8 per cent. Stanford University's 6.3 per cent, MIT's 5.2 per cent and Yale University's 4.5 per cent. Several say instances of racial discrimination have impeded minorities from gaining promotion toward tenure...
Some professors cite Skocpol as a female junior professor who suffered from departmental male biases. "Theda is a very good case to talk about standards," one female professor says. "Objectively she's attained all the outward trappings of it--all the external credentials, all the awards, her book's got fabulous reviews. Since she's clearly made the standards, people are pretty upset...