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University Provost Steven E. Hyman has moved to fulfill one of the most important recommendations of the Task Forces on Women, announcing today that Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds would assume the new post of senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity...
Hammonds will also try to improve the University’s “climate” for women and minorities. She will offer implementation support for the Task Forces on Women, which were created this February in response to uproar when Summers appeared to dismiss a link between discrimination and scarcity of women in the University’s upper echelons...
Hammonds, whose academic expertise spans both electrical engineering and African-American history, served this spring as chair of the Task Force on Women Faculty. She has also served on the Standing Committee on Women, the body responsible for initially suggesting the creation of her post...
...everyone. No one is forced into it; teams sign up when they're ready. Best Buy expects that ROWE one day will apply to the whole company. At the moment, it is working on a version for the 100,000 retail employees in its stores, a much more difficult task because most of those employees are hourly, and their work is regulated by federal...
Janssen, for her part, had considered leaving when she was pregnant. "Now, it's not even an issue," she says. As for Blesener, the retail supervisor, he went to his first parent-teacher conference, a task that had always fallen to his wife, a stay-at-home mother to their two sons. Joe Pagano, 55, a vice president who works in merchandising, looks back in sadness at all the sacrifices he made. While his wife stayed at home with their son and daughter, "I basically worked every Saturday, and some Sundays," he says. "It's one of the biggest regrets...