Without women in its highest offices, "Harvard has missed some extremely good candidates in its last 300-some years," Graham says.
While the University as a whole is known for its low number of tenured women, GSE is the closest to achieving gender balance.
According to the 1997-1998 edition of the Harvard University Factbook, over 35 percent of GSE's tenured faculty are women. Graham stresses that this can't be explained away by arguments that education is a "women's field."
The next highest Harvard school in terms of tenured women is the School of Design--with about 26 percent.
Younger women who want to move through the faculty ranks into administration should talk to the older women who have already done it, she says. A woman may lead Harvard in the not-so-distant future, she adds.
"I think it could be quite soon... Persons of color and white women now have access...that's all happened in my lifetime," she says. "These institutions are drawing on a broader range of talent than they were before."
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