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Jackson is suing the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur, charging that she was denied tenure because she is a woman. Jackson is asking Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, Jr. to award her a tenured post, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income. If she succeeds, Jackson will become the fifth woman to join the school's tenured ranks throughout its 80-year history, and one of four women currently among the school's senior faculty...
Professor of Business Administration Regina E.Herzlinger, who was the second woman to gaintenure at the B-School, when asked during an April1987 deposition whether she thought differenttenure standards are applied to women than men atHarvard, said she did not think...
...South African government passed a law allowing authorities to hold people in prison for 90 days without being charged. Ruth First, a liberal journalist whose husband was a major figure in the African National Congress (ANC), was the first white woman arrested under the act, and it is her story and that of her family that A World Apart tells--although the credits contain the ironic disclaimer that the film's characters are not based on any person, living or dead...
Barbara Hershey, whose face and mannerisms are reminiscent of Jane Fonda's, plays Roth as a woman torn between her convictions and her family. It's the old story of the working woman--how to juggle career and children satisfactorily--but with a twist. This mother has to contend with violent forces beyond her control...
...trial concluded last month and a verdict on Jackson's request for tenure, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income is expected to be handed down next month by Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, Jr. If the judge finds in her favor, Jackson will become the fifth woman tenured in the history of the 80-year-old B-School, and one of four women among the school's current 90-member senior faculty...