Word: skocpol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Harvard graduate students could automatically count on getting jobs at the top-prestige universities are over," says Theda Skocpol, assistant professor of Sociology and director of placement for the department. "But," she adds, "there still are university jobs and good college jobs available to just about everybody...
...almost the rule, not the exception," Brendan Maher, chairman of the Psychology and Social Relations Department, says, for letters from universities advertising openings to specify interest in finding qualified women or minority candidates. As a direct result of the women's movement and "the fuss that's been made," Skocpol says, "it's now easier for a woman to be taken seriously and harder for men to be placed through the old boy network...
...original junior faculty letter to Homans was signed by Skocpol, Taylor, Mark S Granovetter, assistant professor of Sociology, and Klaus Allerbeck, assistant professor of Sociology. Granovetter and Allerbeck were unavailable for comment yesterday...
Commenting on last week's decision, Skocpol said "I'm glad that the tenured faculty did the rational thing and set up some meetings we could participate and vote...
...Skocpol said she was unhappy that "reform was not carried to its logical conclusion...