October 1, 2004
Female Professors Say Harvard Is Not Granting Tenure to Enough Women
Twenty-six senior female professors at Harvard University have sent a letter to Lawrence H. Summers, its president, complaining that the percentage of tenured faculty jobs offered to women has declined drastically since Mr. Summers took office.
In the 2000-1 academic year, the year before Mr. Summers arrived, women received 37 percent of the tenured offers that the university made to professors in the arts and sciences, the letter says. Since then, the percentage has fallen steadily
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