Grosz said there is hope for progress. She points to some reforms the University has implemented since the 1990 report. For example, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has begun an escort service and parental leave policy, she said.

But in the area of female faculty recruitment, results have not been so positive. The number of women in the natural sciences faculty has actually decreased in the past year, according to the 1993 Affirmative Action report.

Mallinckrodt Professor, of Physics Howard M. Georgi '68, who chairs the physics department and is also a member of the committee, said his department is making strong efforts to recruit and retain women professors and graduate students.

The physics department last year tenured Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin, and Georgi said eight of the 22 graduate students accepted so far for next year are women.

"The most important thing we try to do is to make a real effort to attract a number of women students," Georgi said.

But not all departments have changed. "One can only hope the leaders will improve the departments that haven't moved," Grosz said.