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Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes

Women in American Research Universities

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Lilli S. Hornig

    1. The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, USA

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Part of the book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology (ISET, volume 15)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lilli S. Hornig
      Pages 1-15

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Dreaming and Scheming

      • Catharine R. Stimpson
      Pages 19-30

    3. The Current Status of Women in Research Universities

      • Lilli S. Hornig
      Pages 31-51

    4. A National Profile of Academic Women in Research Universities

      • Helen S. Astin, Christine M. Cress
      Pages 53-88

  5. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Women in the Academy

      • Carol S. Hollenshead
      Pages 211-225

    3. Organizational Change to Support Success of Women

      • Linda P. Fried, Emma Stokes, Susan MacDonald, Cynthia Rand, Joan Bathon
      Pages 227-244

  6. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins

      • Londa Schiebinger
      Pages 247-256

    3. Transforming Knowledges

      • Piya Chatterjee
      Pages 257-278

  7. Part V

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Women’s Uneven Progress in Academia

      • Marianne A. Ferber
      Pages 281-309

    3. Work/Family/Life Issues and Programs in Higher Education—What’s New

      • Kathleen Sullivan
      Pages 311-317
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About this book

Thirteen years ago, in June 1988, the Radcliffe Classof1953 celebrated its 35th Reunion. Amidst the festivities, we who participated repeatedly asked ourselves the same two questions: Is Harvard as sexist as it was when we were undergraduates? If not, what is the status ofwomen at Harvard today? To find the answers we formed an ad hoc committee and charged the members to report back to the class in five years. The committee interviewed selected senior and junior Harvard faculty, Harvard and Radcliffe administrators, students, and alumni/ae. We identified and studied Harvard and Radcliffe reports on their institu­ tions and on their student organizations. We contributed to and participated in a 1990 Radcliffe Focus Group, "ASurveyofAlumnae and Undergraduate Perceptions. " We found that the University was not as sexist in 1988 as it had been in 1953. Yet the status ofwomen, though improved, remained quite unequal to thatofmen. (Radcliffe College was organizationally separate from Harvard University until 1977, when a "non-merger merger" was implemented. However, Radcliffe had no fac­ ulty of its own and employed Harvard faculty to teach its students, in strictly separate classes until World War II. The merger effort was com­ pleted in 1999 with the complete integration ofthe two institutions and the formation ofthe Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a "tub on its own bottom" like other Harvard graduate and professional schools. ) In 1993 the Class of'53 voted unanimously to form the Commit­ tee for the EqualityofWomen at Harvard (CEWH).

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, USA

    Lilli S. Hornig

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes

  • Book Subtitle: Women in American Research Universities

  • Editors: Lilli S. Hornig

  • Series Title: Innovations in Science Education and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0007-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47351-7Published: 31 December 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0007-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1873-1058

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-2236

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 394

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership

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