Howard Georgi '67-'68, Harvard's women faculty are given salaries equal to their male counterparts. But faculty say that Harvard's tenuring policies, evolving only slowly out of a near-blanket refusal to promote to the senior level, greatly reduce the numbers of top female scholars knocking on Harvard's door. Of course, Harvard's record on granting tenure discourages junior men and women equally from taking positions at Harvard. But this pattern makes the task of remedying historic inequalities much more difficult. The pattern is unmistakable.
Many people come and leave.
And they leave earlier. We lose a lot of very good people. And though women continue to enter the humanities at Harvard, the degree to which they are accepted remains in question. Women's Studies has always had second-class status in the minds of many at Harvard. Harvard experts on cultural studies say women cluster in either established feminine areas of study or new disciplines which are theirs for the taking.