A University report issued last spring says that "the conditions and situations [in the 1991 report] have not been completely--or even substantially--alleviated."
Howard Georgi '68, Mallinckrodt professor of physics and a leader in the attempt to improve the position and numbers of women at Harvard, says that steps have been taken to remedy problems cited in the 1991 report.
But he agrees that the University has a long way to go.
"There's been a tremendous amount of progress--there are fewer horror stories now," he says. "[But] we haven't seen a tremendous amount of progress towards real equality."
The most obvious sign of the inequalities that remain is the large discrepancy between the number of tenured men and women in the natural sciences.
Though the number of tenured women in the sciences has increased over the years, the numbers are still nowhere near equal.
In the natural sciences only 11 of 162 tenured faculty members, or 6.8 percent, are women.
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