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Article: MIT Hosts Roundtable on Gender Disparities for Female Professors in Higher Education.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- February 15, 2001
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
A roundtable on how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The decision to host a roundtable discussion on gender equity in higher education was the result of MIT data that showed female faculty in its school of science had been seriously discriminated against. Dr. Charles Vest, the president of MIT, acknowledged in 1999 that, based on the data presented to him, this was indeed the case.
One of the topics discussed was what strategies could be applied to increase opportunities to women faculty in ...