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Stressing the academic nature of the Women's Studies program, Hufton said her department is unable to play the role of a central clearinghouse for undergraduate women's groups and activities...
Students pressing for a women's center said the single room provided by Radcliffe for use by undergraduates is too small, inconveniently located and inaccessible. And in the absence of an official women's center, Women's Studies Committee Chair Olwen Hufton said many people seem to expect her program to fill...
...Harvard was the second to last school in the Ivy League to establish a Women's Studies program--a step which it took only three years ago. Since then, it has made only one tenured appointment in women's studies--to Professor of History and Women's Studies Olwen Hufton. And only one other person even holds any kind of faculty appointment in women's studies--Lecturer in Women's Studies Alexandra Owen, the concentration's head tutor...
...propaganda of the '50s, that normal women wouldn't want careers--much of that has vanished," says Olwen Hufton, professor of history and of women's studies...
Even when women overcome these obstacles, however, they are faced with greater demands than their male counterparts, Hufton says. "The fact that there are so few of them and that [universities] want them to be visible [means that] they're overstretched...