Word: wexlers
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...Sexism wasn’t as blatant as it had been in the days that women weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom in Lamont,” says Natalie Wexler ’76, a former Crimson executive. “But I was often the only woman in section. My Ec 10 section leader would start section by talking about football scores with all the guys. I never felt like I was really a part of the conversation, that I was really getting the whole section. I could not bring myself to open my mouth...
...could be that I wasn’t picking up on [the discrimination],” admits Wexler. “By the time we got to Harvard, if you had that attitude about women you had to hide it. It was no longer okay to display...
...However, institutional factors like the imbalanced male to female ratio and lack of female professors did not necessarily prevent women in the Class of 1976 from having academic aspirations. “I graduated from Harvard wanting to pursue a Ph.D. in history,” Wexler says...
...Anne Wexler, a Washington legend who managed a panoply of Democratic constituency groups as President Jimmy Carter's public liaison, advised the freshmen on the dynamic between White House staff and Congressional representatives...
...Wexler, a Democrat, said she agreed. Representatives should expect change "incrementally, not monumentally...