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Deborah Leiderman '76, another of the organizers of the group said that the collection of signatures "went very well." The group, which was formed last week, will also forward the petition to Presidents Bok and Horner's offices, with the hope that "at least a dialogue will be started" over the issue, Leiderman said...
President Horner took a personal interest in the symposium. Radcliffe was one of its co-sponsors, and Harvard provided the Science Center free. Susan S. Lyman, acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute, was an introductory speaker...
Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell, a FORTUNE editor for ten years, opened the discussion with an analysis of America's recent failures, including aspects of the Great Society, Viet Nam and Watergate. Social Scientist David Riesman talked about higher education; Radcliffe President Matina Horner discussed the outlook for women; Bernard Frieden, director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the scarcity of housing. The other seminar participants: Law Professor Paul Freund, Harvard Business School Dean Lawrence Fouraker, Historian Bernard Bailyn, Sociologist Gene Sharp, John F. Kennedy Library Director Dan Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam...
...Horner says that despite the predicted squeeze on certain types of jobs and the probable exclusion of women from them as a result, there are many services which the country will be relying on in the future but no trained people to provide them. Horner sees the Institute as taking the lead in pinpointing these areas and developing para-professional training programs so that women who might otherwise be kept out of work can be redirected towards jobs that will fulfill the needs of the near future...
...meet certain national needs at the same time that it helps women to adjust to the gloomy economic conditions ahead. "The worst thing that could happen is that women who have trained for a career will come out of school only to bump their heads against a stone wall," Horner said. "Above all we don't want women to have to take a step backwards...