Neil. Harvey. Jeremy, Kim, Peter, Bryan, Jerome, Joseph, Robert, Joseph, Bruce, Venkatesh and Barry.

Subtract Radcliffe Institute Dean Mary Maples Dunn's name from the list of Harvard's top officials, and in one way 1999 might as well be 1699. All the names are male.

Harvard's top deanships and administrative positions have traditionally been dominated by men. Before Dunn's appointment this year, only one woman had served as dean of a graduate school.

In recent years, women have made huge gains at the lower levels of University administration. Women now hold administrative positions including the vice president of finance, the vice president of administration and the university's general counsel.

Women also sit on Harvard's most important governing body, the Harvard Corporation, as well as the Board of Overseers, but they meet infrequently.

And among those high officials who lead the University directly and present Harvard's face to its students and the outside world, men still predominate.

Though President Neil L. Rudenstine has emerged as an advocate of affirmative action and diversity in higher education, no woman has taken office at the dean level or higher during his tenure.

Harvard's problem, officials say, goes back to a lack of women among tenured faculty nationwide.