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Students at the meeting also urged Mas-Colellto supply them with the names of those beingconsidered for tenured positions so thatundergraduates could check on the recruitment ofwomen and minorities and possibly meet withprospective candidates...
Wilson: I've never put a label onmyself. I'm not typecast as an active supporter ofwomen because my portfolio is on a differentscope, but I've worked as much as I could more ina quiet diplomacy style because I've been in innercircles in the institutions I've been working withand I've had the opportunity to tweak the systemat the right time, to get the point across. Ifound that to be a very effective strategy...
...Harvard must think about equal opportunity forwomen," says Mary Gray, a professor of computersciences at American University who helped preparea rare external review of Harvard's undergraduateeducation last year. "There has been an influx ofwomen into the lower ranks, but without seniorwomen the quality of education is affectedadversely...
...fact, the percentage of women who serve ashead tutors is much higher than the percentage ofwomen on the faculty--31 percent of head tutorsare women, while they comprise only 14 percent ofthe faculty eligible. Professor of RomanceLanguages Barbara E. Johnson says the significanceof this figure is that junior women faculty areconsciously channeled into positions that do notdirectly enhance their chances for tenure andactually detract from their amount of researchtime...
...focusing on the mid- to high-end ofwomen's ready-wear fashion. We want to be known asa fashion center, and we're being selective aboutwho we bring in," Moore says...