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...Walzer cites this past year's study of concentration patterns as a model of the kinds of information-gathering the OWE will undertake in order to better help women here. "The office doesn't have the setup, nor ought it, to do extensive social science research," she says. "But we should be able to get the facts so that we can argue that certain myths about women aren't true. Once we find out what the story is, then we can do something about...
...number of women in some sciences has gone up, and that recently the number of male English concentrators has topped the number of women in English. "We learned that some of the myths are true, but not to the same degree that people believe them to be true," Walzer said...
...traditional for women. This year the office sponsored meetings for prospective women concentrators in Economics, Government and the physical sciences with women Faculty, graduate students and research associates in those departments. "If I can believe all that I've heard since those meetings, the freshmen found them very helpful," Walzer says. "And the women graduate students, junior Faculty and senior Faculty were both willing and enthusiastically positive...
...other areas, information-gathering leads to lobbying. The OWE's study, in cooperation with the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, of prize money available to men and women, is a prime example. Walzer says that she doesn't know what will result from the OWE's discovery and publicity of discrepancies in the money both available to, and won by, women. Office staff-people have already visited with the appropriate departments, and next year will, Walzer says, "gently remind" them that women too are eligible for at least some of the prize money at Harvard...
More generally, Walzer says she is interested in experimental projects bering on coeducation in sections and tutorials. "It's worth doing whatever you can to find out what it's like when things are different--to compare the experience of a woman alone in a group of men with that of a woman in a more equal group," she says. "It's not bad in itself to go to an unequal-ratio school, but we should know more about what happens when the numbers are applied directly to the educational system...