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Current tenure track hurts junior female profs

Published Wednesday, November 28, 2001

At the last Yale College Council public forum, we in the audience were treated to an eloquent discussion by Dean Richard Brodhead about the need for more tenured women faculty. As various administrators have for many years, Brodhead promised that Yale would make concrete steps toward recruiting and retaining women.

On Dec. 6, we will see just how serious the administration is.

At the faculty meeting that Thursday, Provost Alison Richard will give the administration's response to the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty. The committee, headed by physics...

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