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A group of senior women professors at Harvard University is hoping to reverse the sharp drop in tenure offers to women in recent years. They met with Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers in October to discuss tenuring trends during his three-year presidency, a meeting he called after 26 of them signed a letter noting the decrease in women's tenured job offers.
Last year, women received just 13% (four of 32) tenure offers in Harvard's Faculty of Letters and Science, compared with 36% during the 2000-2001 school year, when Neil Rudenstein was president.
As Harvard's statistics on the tenuring of women have become public, professors have formed a new group: the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equity. The group currently has 70 members, or four-fifths of Harvard's female senior ...