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...graduate student level, this meant the baby problem began to get traction, according to Christine D. Wenc, a History of Science grad student who was particularly active in the parent community at the time of Summers’ remarks. The statistics were telling: nationwide, women with children are less likely to enter the tenure-track, less likely to receive tenure, and more likely to leave academia entirely than their childless or male counterparts. And surveys at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that students with children, and particularly women, can face a discouraging environment. In a 2008 survey of the University?...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...There’s still this feeling that people should suck it up, that you do this,” said Christine Wenc, who helped start the GSAS Student-Parents Organization that worked on the report. “Asking people to put their family on hold for 5-10 years? This isn’t a monastery any more, this...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: For GSAS Parents, a Baby Balancing Act | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...Parent group founder Wenc attributed the emergence of parents’ issues at Harvard to former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ controversial remarks about women in science...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: For GSAS Parents, a Baby Balancing Act | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...Great, thank you President Summers, you didn’t mean to do it, but I think this is going to be your legacy,” Wenc said. “That’s what gave a lot of that a good kick in the butt. Those statements threw the entire country, and this became a huge issue...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: For GSAS Parents, a Baby Balancing Act | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...organization surveyed graduate students in the winter of 2004 and then met with the GSAS administration to discuss its concerns, according to the group’s founder, Christine D. Wenc...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lags in Grad Parent Aid | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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