Word: actions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases strictly confidential if a woman student wants to talk. Keeping the case under wraps, she argues, protects only the Faculty. "Enough students have been hurt because Faculty members have stood up for each other," Hubbard says. To protect students, Hubbard believes "publicity and expose" are most effective. Disciplinary action, although sometimes necessary, is not as important as publicizing the cases because "spotlighting will eliminate the vast majority of the cases," Hubbard says...
...with the professor's colleagues and graduate students. After the dinner, she says the professor humiliated her by "coming on to me sexually in front of his peers." The student talked to Walzer and others. Word got gack to the professor, who falsely accused her of taking official faculty action against him and told others in the department she was an hysterical woman, not to be trusted. When she requested a recommendation from him--he is a key scholar in her field--he delayed until the last moment, then sent her a "very ugly" letter saying he had written...
...December 4, the Crimson printed an article by Monique Sullivan on the RUS faculty-student dinner. In summarizing my brief speech the reporter pulled the quote "I am at Harvard because of affirmative action" out of context. I became aware of this indiscretion because four students questioned me about the article before my Tuesday lecture. One woman implored, "Did you really say this? I don't believe it!" in a horrified tone which plagued me all day. Several women who attended the dinner were furious at the implication which could be drawn because the quote had been taken...
...statement exemplifies the point I had raised at the RUS dinner. In relating the wonders and pitfalls of being a professional woman I cautioned that successful moments are often tainted by people who are quick to dismiss or qualify your ability and attribute a woman's achievement to affirmative action. At some point most women, including myself, rise to the bait and launch into a tirade stressing that they are extremely capable and deserving of their position. This surge of anger is not likely to change anyone's mind. Offering no catharsis, anger only succeeds in undermining the principle...
...students attending the RUS dinner to refocus the context in which one responds to this pernicious comment. I believe that women have and continue to face discrimination in this country. If young women entering the professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional institutions...