Hard-earned gains for women at Harvard
Harvard’s history with women is indeed complicated, said historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz in a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Monday. In a talk titled “It’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard,” the professor emerita of history and American studies at Smith College examined the University’s shifting gender landscape, contending that while the Harvard of today has much to celebrate in regards to women, it still has room to improve. The lecture took shape as Harvard President Drew Faust and Radcliffe Dean Lizabeth Cohen discussed how the Radcliffe Institute could, said Cohen, “make an intellectual contribution” to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary. Just as important to the two historians, said Cohen, “was how the history of women at Harvard might be well represented in the course of the anniversary year.” Faust offered opening remarks at Monday’s event, saying that the past 100 years can be seen as “a narrative of progress”...