Records of the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality, 2004-2008
Overview
The records of the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality consists of correspondence, clippings, and printed minutes of Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences meetings documenting controversy arising from comments made by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on the subject of women's ability to excel in science.
Dates
- 2004-2008
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research. An appointment is necessary to use digital records.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the records created by the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Records may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet (1/2 file box)41.024 Megabytes (2 files)
The records of the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality consists of correspondence, clippings, and printed minutes of Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences meetings documenting controversy arising from comments made by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on the subject of women's ability to excel in science. Also included are correspondence, presentations, emails, and other materials documenting Professor Susan J. Pharr's work with the caucus.
HISTORY
The Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality was formed in response to remarks made in January 2005 by Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, at a conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economics, on the subject of women's ability to excel in science.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 2005-M99; 2016-M234
The records of the Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality were given to the Schlesinger Library by Lizabeth Cohen in 2005 and by Susan J. Pharr in 2016.
Processing Information
Processed: September 2020
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Electronic records
- Harvard University--Faculty
- Harvard University. Standing Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Sex discrimination against women--United States
- Sex discrimination in higher education--United States
- Women college teachers--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Women in science
- Women scientists
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- und
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01904
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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