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Walzer cites this past year's study of concentration patterns as a model of the kinds of information-gathering the OWE will undertake in order to better help women here. "The office doesn't have the setup, nor ought it, to do extensive social science research," she says. "But we should be able to get the facts so that we can argue that certain myths about women aren't true. Once we find out what the story is, then we can do something about...
Through an investigation of the majors of Radcliffe women over the past decade, for example, the OWE learned that the number of men concentrating in the sciences has dropped since the Sputnik era, that the number of women in some sciences has gone up, and that recently the number of male English concentrators has topped the number of women in English. "We learned that some of the myths are true, but not to the same degree that people believe them to be true," Walzer said...
...apart from these general observations, the OWE uses its information to focus on specific groups of women--in this case, women who major in academic areas considered non-traditional for women. This year the office sponsored meetings for prospective women concentrators in Economics, Government and the physical sciences with women Faculty, graduate students and research associates in those departments. "If I can believe all that I've heard since those meetings, the freshmen found them very helpful," Walzer says. "And the women graduate students, junior Faculty and senior Faculty were both willing and enthusiastically positive...
...addition to continuing those meetings next year, the OWE has sent a special mailing to incoming freshman women who have declared an interest in the sciences to acquaint them with the Science Center. The office will focus on this group of women once it arrives, in order to follow individual courses of action with respect to continuing in the sciences...
...other areas, information-gathering leads to lobbying. The OWE's study, in cooperation with the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, of prize money available to men and women, is a prime example. Walzer says that she doesn't know what will result from the OWE's discovery and publicity of discrepancies in the money both available to, and won by, women. Office staff-people have already visited with the appropriate departments, and next year will, Walzer says, "gently remind" them that women too are eligible for at least some of the prize money at Harvard...