Yale Students Protest Treatment of Women

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- More than 100 Yale University graduate students marched to the president's office Thursday to protest what they said is inequitable treatment of women at the Ivy League university.

The students, many of whom are trying to form a union, claim that women are discouraged from getting top tenured positions. They want Yale to release the names of job candidates to help show whether the university is considering women fairly.
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Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said Levin has done much to increase the number of tenured women faculty.

Of the 881 tenured Yale faculty members, 168 -- or 19 percent -- are women. That percentage has nearly doubled in the past decade, a statistic that university officials say reflects their commitment to improvement.

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from a study in my physics dept. at a different university. It was quite appalling. While the male grad students said that they thought everything was OK, the females reported many instances of discrimination.

I think that the problem at the level of grad students has been ignored for the most part. They try to fix it at the level of faculty, as if the female faculty grew on trees instead of coming out of grad school.