"Since the 1980's, the department has been identified by many elements of Harvard as the one having...feminist senior women who are very outspoken, and I do think it's made a kind of backlash...[But] when strong women intellectually congregate in a particular discipline or department, they have to be ready."
Between Fields and Nowhere to Go
"Faculty in gender and sexuality are more likely to be doing interdisciplinary work and are more likely to be women," she says.
But some say women's concentration in these fields results in what Epps terms a subtle "lack of crediting" to their work.
"Women's Studies has always had second-class status in the minds of many at Harvard," says Acey Welch, co-chair of CEWH.
Most interdisciplinary research takes place in nondepartmental programs such as Social Studies, Literature, History and Literature and Women's Studies. And faculty in these fields say joint appointments often entail greater workloads and a lesser chance of promotion.
"You're spending half your time elsewhere..." says Garber. "It's a real problem that people in Social Studies don't get promoted."
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