CSW recommends this fascinating article, which appeared over
the weekend in the Education section of The
New York Times. It chronicles
Harvard Business School’s efforts to “give itself a gender makeover, changing
its curriculum, rules, and social rituals to foster female success.” The school has been criticized in the past
for its male dominated, even misogynistic environment, in which women struggle
to succeed as students and professors. In order to rectify these problems, HBS’ administrators took various
measures, including mandating classes to encourage students (in particular,
woman students) to participate more in courses and not feel intimidated by male
colleagues, seminars on sexual harassment, and one on advisory and training
for pre-tenure female faculty members. The study incurred both praise and criticism from students and
faculty. Many participants found that
the experiment revealed that issues of gender inequity on campus and in the
business world are more deep-seated and complicated than they’d anticipated,
and thus harder to solve. Prominently,
the study raised concerns that class and gender inequity at Harvard, and in the
business world as a whole, are tightly intertwined.
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
What do you think of the study, its results, and the
article’s analysis? We'd love to get some comments about this disturbing study. Write to us: cswpubs@csw.ucla.edu
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