Word: mcclelland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McClelland's findings are part of a massive as-yet-unpulished study being prepared in conjunction with the Office of Tests and Evaluation...
When asked yesterday why the part of the report dealing with women's fear of success was made public, while the rest remained secret, McClelland said, "Women are oppressed because undergraduate men are pigs. We have to publicize this, and to let faculty, administrators and students see that they're acting terribly...
...some members of the faculty, as well as some students and administrators, say that studies such as McClelland's, in which variables and measures are defined rather loosely, only succeed in adding fuel to the hardline attitudes involving women prevalent among illustrious members of the Harvard community...
Critics of the fear-of-success theory say that women do not avoid success, but rather failure. The McClelland and Horner thesis, they say, is inexact in distinguishing the difference...
...example, Judith Walzer, the director of the Office of Women's Education, said yesterday The Crimson story on the McClelland report presented an unbalanced view of women's situation here. "Radcliffe women," Walzer says, "fear falling flat on their faces and nothing else...