Huidekoper says that, within this consensus-centered framework, women have power as lower-level administrators..
"All of the senior people in Jeremy Knowles's office are women, for example," Dunn says.
But Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard's associate vice president for planning and real estate, says women's role in the administration needs to be complemented by a strong presence among tenured faculty.
Spiegelman says she can only do so much to change Harvard from her strictly administrative position.
"I must acknowledge that I sometimes experience a feeling of being marginalized," Spiegelman wrote in an e-mail message. "Since the leaders on the faculties are primarily male, my job as a woman administrator has an extra challenge."
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