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'Pretty' Harvard librarian sues for bias.(Desiree Goodwin)(Brief Article)

Women in Higher Education

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Told she was just a "pretty girl" and "a joke" at the main Harvard library and would never get promoted, Desiree Goodwin is suing for discrimination.

Goodwin, who got a master's degree in library science at Simmons College in 1999, has been an assistant librarian at Harvard for nine years, after working at the library at Boston College for seven years.

Since 1999 she has applied for 16 jobs at Harvard. In 2001, she said her supervisor told her she'd never get a promotion at Harvard because she "was ...

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