Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teach-in is being organized by representatives from various student groups, including the Black StudentsAssociation, the Progressive Student LaborMovement and the Undergraduate Council...
...true nationally that women are a minority in most natural science fields other than life sciences, but Harvard's record in this respect seems worse than those of many similar or competing institutions. The figures you cite for concentrators in various science departments are similar to or slightly smaller than the proportions of baccalaureate degrees granted in those fields nationally; all science fields, everywhere, lose concentrators before graduation. Although it therefore appears that Harvard produces a smaller percentage of female science majors than the national average, that conclusion probably isn't quite accurate. Rather, any such deficiency is most likely...
...facts about women in science and academic careers differ considerably from the common assumptions about the salience of family obligations and the grounds for women's decisions about careers. Nearly 40 percent of the women who pursue academic careers are unmarried and do not have small children, so the various family-friendly policies, important as they are to the other 60 percent, don't apply. But, strikingly, career outcomes differ minimally among the two groups, and married women with children are the more successful. Women's academic careers in humanities and social science fields are no better on the whole...
...must introduce (or avoid introducing) a girlfriend, or those who risk their parents' misinterpretation of a friend who is really just a friend or a fling who is really just a fling, or those who would simply prefer to do without their parents' impromptu advice about which of various passers-by they should...
...Wing. Here the legal strategies hatched at the first sessions become p.r. strategies in the second. "We don't deal with facts," said a participant. "We deal with spin." The cast varies from day to day, but the communications team generally consists of McCurry, Emanuel, adviser Paul Begala and various other image makers...