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While that is hardly something to hold against the Institute, the needs of women have changed during the 13 years of its existence and so have the interests of the foundations who are the Institute's financial backbone. Add to that the new leadership of Radcliffe President Horner and the predictions of a national economic recession, and you have a Radcliffe Institute that is in transition...
...Horner last year secured a oneyear planning grant from the Ford Foundation to develop new Institute programs with a broader scope. She considers the Institute an ideal place to study the relationship between women and work by focusing on two or three national social problems. Largely as a result of her direction, the Institute will be helping more women, and not just those in academics, at the transitional points in their lives...
Underlying the efforts to redirect the Institute is the conviction held by Horner and other Radcliffe administrators that the country is entering a long economic recession whose principal victims will be women and minorities...
...becoming an economic pessimist," Horner said. "I worry that in a no-growth economy we are encouraging women into positions that won't be there. The history of women in and out of the work force indicates that people's social consciousness diminishes when the economy gets tight. The recession could backfire on women, and we must be prepared for that...
There we'd find Matina Horner...