As for the tenured women, the prejudice that most encounter is such that one wonders why many of them stay on at all.
Of 17 tenured women faculty members in the six departments of science, only 7 have children.
He recently vowed to take an unpaid leave of absence until Harvard appointed a tenured black woman to its law faculty.
Real, but hard to pin down until three tenured women on the School of Science faculty started to compare notes in the summer of 1994.
Harvard maintains that it is committed to increasing the number of tenured women from its current 11.5 percent.
If Professor Tai accepts the university's offer, she will be the third tenured woman in Harvard's history department.
She was the first tenured woman in Harvard's Government Department.
There are no tenured non-white women on the faculty.
The number of tenured women had barely changed since the 1980's.
She began teaching full time at Harvard in 1985 and was among the first generation of tenured women in the English department.