February 16, 2001

Report Questions MIT's Study on Treatment of Female Professors

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology acted hastily in 1999 to redress gender discrimination that may not even have existed, according to a report published this month by a nonprofit women's group that looks critically at claims of bias.

The report, prepared by the Independent Women's Forum, criticizes M.I.T.'s study of female faculty members in the sciences, which has since fueled a national discussion about the issue. Last month, prompted in part by the

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