Press Coverage Continued

Harvard Crimson November 7, 1994

Gender Upends Tenure
"Equality in tenured professors is a long way off."

This editorial discusses the failure to tenure two women Associate Professors of Government despite their receiving their department's recommendations. One woman junior faculty member is quoted as saying "Harvard is a cultural institution that offers progressive space but it doesn't offer the possibility of job security. I don't know what it would take to alter the tenure system--it's fairly impervious to protest." The editorial points out that if the percentages of women faculty continue to grow at their current annual rate, parity won't be achieved for at least another eighty years. "And that's a long time."

Harvard Crimson October 28, 1994

"Radcliffe Pushes Female Tenures: Starts Fellowship for Junior Faculty."

Describes joint effort of Radcliffe, RCAA, CEWH, to raise money to establish a new fellowship for Harvard junior faculty women at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. Quotes CEWH Chair on origin of the Committee.

Boston Globe September 7, 1994

"Groups push for more tenured women at Harvard."

"Challenging the university to put more money - and teeth - into its affirmative action policy, the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard last week presented President Neil Rudenstine and the Board of Overseers with an indictment of the university's hiring practices and with suggestions for change." The article describes Harvard as having "one of the worst records in the nation for tenuring women" and graphically relates its record to other comparable institutions.

Radcliffe Quarterly Fall 1994

"Increasing the number of Tenured Women Faculty at Harvard: What are the Opportunities?"

Sidebar by Joy Fallon ' 78, President of RCAA, about joining ranks with Radcliffe College and CEWH to focus on lack of tenured women faculty at Harvard.

Harvard Magazine July/August 1994

Report on response to Radcliffe 's Commencement symposium on tenure: "The large audience in Agassiz Theatre wanted to do something. Some wore white T-shirts distributed by the Committee on the Equality of Women at Harvard."

Cambridge Chronicle June 16, 1994

"Radcliffe forum challenges Harvard's 'old boy' tenure system."

Report on Radcliffe's Commencement panel "Increasing the Number of Tenured Women Faculty at Harvard: What are the Opportunities?" Mentions the joint efforts of Radcliffe College, the RCAA and CEWH to raise money for a Bunting Fellowship for a female junior professor at Harvard.

Harvard Crimson March 7, 1993

'Cliffe Grads Publish Letter.
" 3 from 1953 Protest Scarcity of Tenured Women at Harvard"

The article quotes from a letter published in the May 6, 1993 Boston Globe referring to Harvard's "glacial progress" in tenuring women faculty. The letter is signed by five women calling themselves the "Ad hoc committee on the status of women at Harvard/Radcliffe." The article also gives background on the committee, its goals, its research efforts, and ends with a quote from the Committee Chair. . ."The question is how long will Radcliffe women be silenced and how long will Radcliffe be silenced by Harvard."

Harvard Crimson May 7, 1990

Radcliffe Alums Lobby for Change
"Ad Hoc Committee Pushes for Increased Women Hiring."

"Battling what they describe as a 'little-sister' mentality toward Radcliffe, an ad hoc committee of Radcliffe alumnae has stepped forward to register its opposition to gender barriers at the university and lobby for increased hiring of women faculty and administrators." The lengthy article discusses committee plans to reinstate the Bunting Institute faculty fellowship program, to host a meeting of women senior faculty, and reports on the lack of encouragement from Radcliffe President Linda Wilson at a meeting seeking her support. Then President Derek Bok was criticized for a "lack of attention to women's issues in his annual report to the Board of Overseers."

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