Category Archives: Judith Kleinfeld

Judith Kleinfeld On the MIT Gender Discrimination Study

March 2, 2001 – 1:00 am

Judith Kleinfeld recently wrote a column for The Christian Science Monitor summarizing her views and the recent Independent Women’s Forum study of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sexual discrimination study.

MIT’s study claimed that the university had discriminated against female scientists, but on closer analysis the study was a political document devoid of any statistics […]

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Glass Ceiling at MIT? Where’s the Data?

April 22, 2000 – 12:00 am

For the February-March 2000 issue of Heterodoxy, Kathryn Jean Lopez reports on the bizarre turn of events at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here’s the short version: several female professors got together and wrote a petition demanding the school investigate gender discrimination at MIT. MIT dutifully convened a panel to study the matter […]

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