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President Horner said in January that Strauch was selected to chair the committee because of his reputation for fairness, his ability to listen to all points of view and draw them together, and his successful work in the executive committee of the Undergraduate Science Center...
...troublesome outgrowth of the publicity given the Horner theory (including a cover story in The New York Times Magazine last year) is that it must inevitably have an adverse effect on opinion regarding the importance of educating women and on the manner in which the education of women is perceived...
What is more disturbing than von Stade's statement, however, is the fuel that was added to the fire by Radcliffe's current president. President Horner's well-publicized thesis that women--notably Radcliffe women--are afraid to succeed has been a source of support for the hard-line attitudes of Harvard stalwarts like von Stade...
...Horner's psychological data seem much more strongly to confirm the hypothesis not that women are afraid to succeed, but that they are afraid to fail. And this alternative theory is borne out by the melange of statistics published in recent years by the OGCP and the Office of Women's Education--an office established by Horner and under her ultimate jurisdiction--concerning the career goals of women undergraduates. These figures suggest women are no less anxious about "making it" in their chosen fields than are their male counterparts...
Furthermore, any attempt to substantiate the Horner hypothesis with allusions to the marriage-children syndrome leads not to corroboration of the theory that women fear success, but rather to validation of women's fear of failure in anything they undertake to do--becoming housewives included...