Graham says women are treated far differently now at Harvard than when she arrived as a postdoctoral student in 1972.
"I couldn't go through the front door of the Faculty Club, nor eat in the main dining room," she says.
To his credit, she adds, one of the first thing then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok did was to change that policy.
"I wouldn't have stayed unless treated equally," she says.
In 1974, she became a professor at Harvard. She was told, upon receiving tenure, that she was the 13th Harvard woman ever with that status.
Graham subsequently rose through the ranks to become dean of the Radcliffe Institute--now the Bunting Institute--a position in which she served from 1974-77.
She was then the vice president of Radcliffe College before accepting the GSE post. In 1981, Bok asked her to be GSE's dean. Graham now serves as Warren professor of history of American education.
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