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...petition, circulated by the Currier House Women's Group, was signed by 1940 members of the Harvard community, including 32 faculty members, and was sent to Bok last Thursday. Copies of the petition have also been sent to President Horner, Dean Rosovsky, Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to Bok, and Caspar W. Weinberger '38, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Horner cited figures on the career plans of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1972, showing that men and women at Harvard have similar goals, as proof that the stereotypes "society persists in shaping" about women are often wrong...
...However, Horner said that overcoming sexual stereotypes is difficult because they often represent "unconscious and not deliberate discrimination," and because of the financial state of the country...
...Things would be less difficult if the economy hadn't reared its ugly head with such force at this particular moment," Horner said. "We have overcome blatant and overt discrimination, but fighting in the job market is the only way to actualize...
...After Horner's speech at the Faculty Club, members of the board of directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni, the Radcliffe College Alumni Association board of management and the Radcliffe board of trustees walked to the Lowell House junior common room, where the Harvard and Radcliffe deans of admissions discussed their first year of working in the same building...