"There wasn't as extremely high turn-out as we had hoped," she said. "I don't think undergraduates realize that [tenure] pertains to them."

"I realized it's such a scary process to become a tenured woman. There's not that many," Tavel said.

In another session, "Issues of Women and Gender in the FAS Curriculum," Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies Juliet B. Schor delved into how women's issues could be better integrated into Harvard's curriculum through increased focus on women's studies in class and through the hiring of more female professors.

"Some alumnae want more women on the faculty, but don't want them studying women; they see that as another kind of ghettoization" Schor said. "They want them doing astrophysics. But others want them changing the way the curriculum is taught."

There is room for improvement should the event be repeated, Clancy said.

"We need to find a way to incorporate more men," said Clancy. "Maybe [this could be accomplished] by adding a panel discussion that would have male panelists talking about what men could do in feminism."

Tavel said putting together the event involved cooperation between many different groups.