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Women and Academia
Feb. 10th, 2007 08:07 am
Harvard Plans to Name First Female President
By SARA RIMER and ALAN FINDER, The New York Times, February 10, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 — Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, plans to name Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian of the Civil War South, to be the first female president in its 371-year history, university officials said Friday.
Her selection by a search committee, if ratified as expected by the Board of Overseers on Sunday, would make Harvard the fourth Ivy League university to name a woman. It comes two years after Lawrence H. Summers, then president of the university, set off a storm by suggesting that a lack of intrinsic aptitude could help explain why fewer women than men reach the top ranks of science and math in universities.
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Somewhat related, I just read an interview with Alice Kessler-Harris (done by Melanie Gustafson, an old professor of mine) in which she talks about how she lost all her funding in grad school when she became pregnant. When she asked the chair why he just pointed at her stomach. She had to spend the next year "proving she was still a committed historian" in order to get her funding back.
By SARA RIMER and ALAN FINDER, The New York Times, February 10, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 — Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, plans to name Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian of the Civil War South, to be the first female president in its 371-year history, university officials said Friday.
Her selection by a search committee, if ratified as expected by the Board of Overseers on Sunday, would make Harvard the fourth Ivy League university to name a woman. It comes two years after Lawrence H. Summers, then president of the university, set off a storm by suggesting that a lack of intrinsic aptitude could help explain why fewer women than men reach the top ranks of science and math in universities.
( Read More )
Somewhat related, I just read an interview with Alice Kessler-Harris (done by Melanie Gustafson, an old professor of mine) in which she talks about how she lost all her funding in grad school when she became pregnant. When she asked the chair why he just pointed at her stomach. She had to spend the next year "proving she was still a committed historian" in order to get her funding back.
