yale women faculty forum wff Annual Report 2009–10

1 wff yale women faculty forum executive summary May 14, 2010

On behalf of the Women Faculty Forum, we share with you our 2009–10 Annual Report. This was a pivotal year for the Women 4 2009–10 Structure Faculty Forum as we celebrated the 40th anniversary of coeducation at . The Women Faculty Forum hosted a day-long Co-Chairs symposium commemorating coeducation, which featured a film Steering and Council screening, panels, and a walking tour of women’s history at Yale. Working Group committee members We also partnered with both the Association of Yale Alumni and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, to celebrate the 10 Celebrating Women at Yale diverse history of women at Yale at two conferences in the spring. This year, the Women Faculty Forum also released its Report on Sexual 40th anniversary of coeducation Misconduct at Yale, continued our policy research and data collection Opening reception on gender equity in the academy, and supported efforts to improve Women’s Leadership Initiative conference childcare availability at Yale. This year, we also continued to provide Nikki Giovanni lecture mentoring and professional development programming for women in Collaborative celebrations with AYA and WGSS the academy, by cosponsoring events with a variety of organizations Tour of women’s history at Yale across the University. Peter Palmquist exhibition Breaking the Veils

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Data collection and policy research Shirley McCarthy Laura Wexler Mentoring and faculty development Professor of Diagnostic Radiology Professor of American Studies Caregiving and Yale Babysitting Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor of Women’s, Gender, Report on sexual misconduct at Yale Women Faculty Forum Co-Chair and Sexuality Studies Women Faculty Forum Co-Chair 26 Looking Forward to 2010–11

3 Alice Prochaska, the next Dean of Somerville College at Oxford and former Librarian and WFF Council member, at the 2009 Women Faculty Forum Opening Reception.

Structure

The Women Faculty Forum is directed by two Co-Chairs, the Steering Committee and Council, with support from staff members. We have student liaisons from professional and graduate schools across the university, and our membership includes 900 faculty, administrators, students, and alumnae from across all schools of the University.

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shirley mccarthy linda bockenstedt anne trites Diagnostic Radiology and Internal Medicine School of Drama Obstetrics & Gynecology and Rheumatology t. kyle vanderlick laura wexler victoria l. brescoll School of Engineering American Studies and School of Management and Applied Science Women’s, Gender, hazel carby lisa walke and Sexuality Studies American Studies and School of Medicine African American Studies sarah weiss steering carol carpenter Music School of Forestry and constance e. bagley Environmental Studies council-at-large School of Management kamari clarke Anthropology hannah brueckner sarbani basu Sociology sheila levrant de bretteville Astronomy School of Art deborah davis seyla benhabib Sociology caren gundberg Political Science paula kavathas Orthopaedics and Philosophy Laboratory Medicine, susan holen-hoeksema alicia schmidt camacho 2009–10 Co-Chairs Immunobiology and Genetics Psychology American Studies and carolyn m. mazure margaret homans Ethnicity, Race and Migration Psychiatry and Psychology English and Women’s, Gender judith chevalier laura wexler shirley mccarthy priya natarajan and Sexualities Studies School of Management Professor of American Studies Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Astronomy and Physics amy hungerford and Professor of Women’s, Gender, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology glenda gilmore English and Sexuality Studies judith resnik History christine jacobs-wagner dolores hayden Laura Wexler is former Chair of the Shirley McCarthy joined the of reva b. siegel Molecular, Cellular and Architecture, Urbanism, Developmental Biology Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Medicine faculty in 1984. Her research inter- Yale Law School and American Studies Program, and a recent recipient of a Henry ests are in the applications and cost effec- joan argetsinger steitz mary lui paula e. hyman American Studies R. Luce Foundation grant for the study tiveness of magnetic resonance imaging of Molecular Biophysics History and Biochemistry of Women, Religion, and Globalization. the body, gynecologic applications of MRI joanne meyerowitz frances rosenbluth History and American Studies Her scholarship centers upon intersections and other imaging techniques, including meg urry Political Science Physics and Astronomy of race, gender, sexuality and class with CT. Previous studies have included prospec- sharon oster jessica stockholder Yale School of Management visual culture. Her book, Tender Violence: tive evaluations of MRI versus other imag- School of Art Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperial- ing techniques in the diagnosis and detec- nancy l. ruther emilie m. townes Political Science ism, won the Joan Kelley Memorial Prize tion of disease and the underlying anatomy of the American Historical Association and/or physiology accounting for the image vicki schultz katie trumpener Yale Law School for the best book in women’s history and/ appearance. She is a fellow in the Interna- Comparative Literature and English or feminist theory. She is also co-author tional Society of Magnetic Resonance in jody sindelar Yale School of Public Health of Pregnant Pictures, and co-editor of Medicine, and is considered an international elisabeth wood Political Science several volumes including Interpretation leader in her field. Professor McCarthy helen siu Anthropology and the Holocaust and The Puritan Imagi- completed her undergraduate studies at nation in Nineteenth Century America. SUNY-Albany, her medical training at Yale joann sweasy Therapeutic Radiology and her Ph.D. at Cornell. and Genetics 6 7 2009–10 Working Groups

40th anniversary caregiving institutional change sexual misconduct of coeducation paula kavathas (co-chair) caren gundberg (co-chair) shirley mccarthy (co-chair) sara rockwell constance e. bagley jessica svendsen Professor, Laboratory Medicine, Professor, Orthopaedics Professor, Diagnostic Professor, Therapeutic (co-chair) Postgraduate Associate, Immunobiology and Genetics Radiology and Professor, Radiology and Pharmacology Professor, Practice Women Faculty Forum amy hungerford (co-chair) Obstetrics & Gynecology of Law and Management laura wexler (co-chair) Professor, English jody sindelar amy wrzesniewski Professor, American Studies, hannah brueckner (co-chair) Professor, School of priya natarajan (co-chair) Associate Professor, and Professor, Women’s, susan abramson Professor, Sociology Public Health Professor, Astronomy Organizational Behavior Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Manager, WorkLife and Physics linda bockenstedt (co-chair) joan steitz nancy alexander jennifer frederick Harold W. Jockers Professor, Sterling Professor, Molecular melanie boyd Timothy Dwight Associate Associate Director, Internal Medicine and Biophysics and Biochemistry Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, Chubb Fellow, WFF Alumnae/i Graduate Teaching Center Rheumatology and Sexuality Studies Advisory Council Co-Chair arun storrs basmah safdar victoria brescoll Postgraduate Associate, victoria brescoll jill cutler Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Women Faculty Forum Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean, Yale College Emergency Medicine School of Management School of Management jessica svendsen eve rice pamela schirmeister susan gail clark Postgraduate Associate, carole goldberg Yale College Class of 1973 Associate Dean, Graduate Joseph F. Cullman Adjunct Women Faculty Forum Director, SHARE Center School of Arts and Sciences Professor, Wildlife Ecology arun storrs and Policy Sciences joann sweasy janet henrich Postgraduate Associate, celia schultz Professor, Therapeutic Associate Professor, Women Faculty Forum Associate Professor, Classics francine foss Radiology and Genetics Internal Medicine Director, jessica svendsen arun storrs meg urry isabel polon Postgraduate Associate, Postgraduate Associate, jodie lutkenhaus Israel Munson Professor, Yale College 2011 Women Faculty Forum Women Faculty Forum Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy Chemical Engineering alice prochaska sarah weiss jessica svendsen University Librarian Associate Professor, Postgraduate Associate, carolyn mazure Department of Music Women Faculty Forum Professor, Psychiatry arun storrs Postgraduate Associate, vera wells merle waxman rhea paul Women Faculty Forum WFF Alumnae/i Advisory Director, Women in Medicine Professor, Child Study Center Council Co-Chair marie robert joan winant Professor, Pathology Yale College Class of 1973

8 9 Celebrating Women at Yale

This year commemorated numerous landmarks for women’s history and gender scholarship at Yale University. The Women Faculty Forum created programming that honored the histories and stories of women at Yale while also focusing on the status of gender equity today. With our own programming and with our partnerships, we sought to engage the Yale community and to enliven the history

The Women Faculty Forum celebrated of women and gender scholarship by hosting panels, film the 40th anniversary of coeducation screenings, exhibitions, and walking tours of women’s of Yale College by hosting a day-long symposium on January 30, 2010 in history at Yale. the Yale University Art Gallery. Over 200 alumnae, students, faculty and administrators attended the event. 10 11 “...the stubbornly continued existence within “To bring about highly needed changes Yale of institutions that are marked with in the workplace, those of us who remember women’s difference—among them the how it was must pass on that history. undergraduate Women’s Center and the Those who are struggling with the stresses Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies of balancing career, family and personal Program, as well as the newly created responsibilities, have to work actively for Women Faculty Forum—raise questions further changes to achieve a more family about whether the work begun with friendly atmosphere.” coeducation, the work of indiffer­entiation, can ever be completed.

margaret homans, Professor of English elga wasserman, Special Assistant and Professor of Women’s, Gender and to the President on the Education of Sexuality Studies, Women Faculty Forum Women and Chairman of the Committee Council member on Coeducation

opening reception Paula Kavathas, Co-Chair of the 40th The Women Faculty Forum hosted 220 guests at its ninth annual Opening Reception Aniversary of Coeducation Working Group and WFF Steering Committee on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 in the President’s Room in Woolsey Hall. This year we member, moderating a panel welcomed Inderpal Grewal, the first full professor to be hired solely in Women’s, Gender with Dean Mary Miller and former and Sexuality Studies. We recognized former wff Steering member, Frances Rosenbluth, Associate Dean John Wilkinson. who was promoted to Deputy Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity, and wff Council member and University Librarian, Alice Prochaska, who is leaving to Oxford to become Master of Sommerville College in fall 2010. We took the opportunity to honor former wff Steering member, the first female Dean of Yale College, Mary Miller. Howard 40th Anniversary of Coeducation Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and former President of the University, introduced Dean Miller, who spoke about the non-issue of being the first female Dean and what she plans to do to improve gender relations on campus. women faculty forum 40th anniversary of coeucation celebration In honor of the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College, the Women Faculty Forum women’s leadership initiative conference and the Steering Committee on the 40th Anniversary of Coeducation hosted a day of events The Women Faculty Forum cosponsored the undergraduate Women’s Leadership Initiative in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery on Saturday, January 30, 2010. conference which celebrated 40 years of women at Yale. It culminated in a panel entitled, The morning began with a preview of the wff Tour of Women’s History at Yale. The “Changing Modes of Leadership: Female Graduates Since ’69,” featuring WFF Alumnae afternoon program took place in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall at the Advisory Council member Nancy Alexander and Dean of Yale College Mary Miller. Yale University Art Gallery and included a screening of Boola Boola...Yale Goes Co-ed; a discussion with the filmmakers, Julia Pimsleur and Eliza Byard; one panel featuring nikki giovanni alumni who were students near the time the College coeducated; and another panel of In partnership with the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Women Faculty Forum former and current administrators and faculty who helped Yale coeducate. Each panel cosponsored a reading and book-signing with the “priestess of black poetry” Nikki focused on the challenges, successes, and continuing processes of coeducating Yale from Giovanni, a world-renowned poet, powerful literary voice, activist, and educator. before the coeducation of Yale College to the present day. The WFF 40th Anniversary Held in the Yale Law School Auditorium, the event celebrated of 40th Anniversaries of Coeducation Committee was co-chaired by Paula Kavathas and Laura Wexler. for AfAm Center, African American Studies and Coeducation at Yale.

12 13 aya Celebration Judith Resnik, former Co-Chair of the Women The Association of Yale Alumni 40th Anniversary panels featuring Faculty Forum, speaks with Dean Mary Miller and WFF Steering Committee organized a weekend of events for wff steering members Co-Chair Shirley McCarthy. alumnae on March 26–28, 2010. The Women Faculty Forum collaborated with the Committee to launch the kim bottomly full tour of the wff Walking Tour of Women’s History President of on Friday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning. Wellesley College The tour ended in the Art Gallery Women in Higher Education Today—and Tomorrow where the Trumbull Master’s Office and thewff had reconstructed a student exhibit about coeducating Yale serene jones College, originally curated by Carly Rothman in 2006. President of Union WFF Council members, Carolyn Mazure, Sharon Theological Seminary Oster, Priya Natarajan, and Reva Siegel led breakout The Impact of Feminism and discussion groups during the “What Matters—Topical Queer Studies on the Academy Issues for Women” sessions focusing on their academic work and how it relates to women at Yale. Past wff carolyn mazure Steering member, Kim Bottomly, returned to speak about women in Higher Education and her role as New Research in president of Wellesley College. Women’s Health that Unravels Complexities and Informs Decisions wgss and lgbts mary miller Anniversaries Conference Dean of Yale College Opening Remarks This year marked the 30th anniversary of Women’s priya natarajan Studies at Yale, and to celebrate, the Women Faculty Astronomy and Physics Forum co-sponsored the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Unveiling the Dark Side of Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender the Universe: Mapping Dark Studies Anniversaries Conference on the weekend of Matter and Dark Energy April 16–18, 2010. Some of our illustrious former faculty and students were here to reflect upon their personal sharon oster intellectual trajectories; others spoke about critical issues Yale School of Medicine within the fields of gender and sexuality studies. WFF Nonprofit Management: partipants included: Hazel Carby Nancy Cott, Sheila Practice Meets Research Levrant de Bretteville, Serene Jones, Mary Miller, and reva siegel Laura Wexler, Co-Chair of Laura Wexler. Throughout the weekend, there were Yale Law School the Women Faculty Forum intimate workshops and discussions in which we and Co-Chair of the 40th Women and Work: considered the impact of this scholarship upon our Anniversary of Coeducation Present and Future Working Group, at the 40th personal, political, and professional lives. The Women Changes and Challenges Anniversary of Coeducation Faculty Forum also offered two walking tours of Celebration. women’s history at Yale to conference participants.

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Tour of Women’s History at Yale 34 grove street 41 kway ar 37 p 35 rr ee hewitt 38 ww o 6 quad 36 29 t o t 40 28 Alice Moore, a PhD Candidate in American Studies, directed the development of a 39 walking tour of women’s history at Yale. It was designed to share the history of wall street 24 gendered iconography, gendered spaces, and gendered interactions on Yale’s campus. 7 5 3 2 26 We presented a preview of the tour at the wff 40th Anniversary of Coeducation 4 broadway 23 1 Celebration and launched the full tour at the aya 40th Anniversary weekend. In whalley avenue 25 addition to developing the guided walking tour, we assembled a self-guided walking 9 8 22 27 tour pamphlet to distribute at the Yale College Admissions Office and the Visitor’s elm street Center, as well as a downloadable pdf; a website; and a podcast featuring interviews 21 with key administrators and students who fought for and ushered in coeducation. 22

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16 17 Peter Palmquist Exhibition Attendees at the 2009 Women Faculty Forum Opening Reception.

The Women Faculty Forum cosponsored “From its beginning, Peter’s collecting with the Photographic Memory Workshop was driven by his desire to understand an exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and how the practice and profession of Manuscripts Library, From Armer to Withington: photography insinuated itself into Selections from Peter Palmquist’s Collection of every aspect of our modern life and Women Photographers. The exhibit explored culture. He was passionate about understanding how women around the the photographs, rare books, periodicals, and world embraced the art, technology, ephemera that photographer and scholar Peter and profession of photography; how Palmquist collected to study and document they expressed themselves through the global history of women’s involvement the images they made; and how they with photography. Palmquist, who began shared their work with others. Peter collecting in 1971, sought to identify, document, made his collection to explore these and collect images by women who worked questions, and it was always his as amateur and commercial photographers, intention to share with others not only as studio assistants, retouchers, colorists, the insights he gained, but also the raw photojournalists, or as filmmakers. His collec- materials from which he worked. It is tion includes biographical files for more than in this spirit that I see our exhibition as 30,000 women from around the world, an invitation to research.” as well as photographs representing the george miles, William Robertson Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Coe Curator, Beinecke Rare Book and work of nearly 2,000 women. Professor of Law at the Yale Law School Manuscripts Library and Women Faculty Forum Steering Committee member, with Robert C. Post, Dean of the Yale Law School. Breaking the Veils

In an effort to support scholarship on gender “Yale University’s showing of and art, the Women Faculty Forum joined the Breaking the Veils represents that Council on Middle East Studies to cosponsor rare international event in which Breaking the Veils: Women Artists from the Islamic the arts, academics, and diplomacy World. Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah seamlessly merge.” of Jordan created the exhibit that featured 51 fe- jasmine melvin-koushki, Curator male artists from 20 Islamic countries. The show was presented by the ArtReach Foundation and included art from the Royal Society of Fine Arts of Jordan. It was on display from September 1 to December 12, 2009 at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

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Each year the Women Faculty Forum concentrates on several gender-related, issue-based initiatives. We then research and advocate for improved University policies in order to enhance the environment for the women and men of Yale. This year, we addressed the status of female faculty at Yale, ranging from researching gender-based salary inequity to the frequency and quality of counteroffers based on gender. We released a report recommending an overhaul of the University’s sexual misconduct policies. We continued to monitor the development of more childcare options and

Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College help facilitate care-giving opportunities for all ranks of and former Women Faculty Forum parents in the University. Steering member, at the ninth annual WFF Opening Reception

20 21 standing committee data counteroffer data to monitor it for dispar- Data Collection and Policy Research The wff began an analysis of the gender ity based on gender. composition of standing committees appointed by the central administration, in endowed chairs faculty at every rank by gender relation to the committee’s function and In assessing inequity v. equity within the Based on this distinct under­representation of women in the faculty status in 2008–09. We are continuing to faculty, the wff investigated the number of as the rank increases, as represented in the following chart, the research the data and plan to include it in endowed chairs based on gender. They found WFF remains committed to closing the gender gap in the Yale our next report, Women, Men, and Yale that 17% of all endowed chairs were women. Faculty to better reflect the diversity of the Yale student body. University: A View from 2011. diversity counteroffers The wff is committed to increasing women 309 Assistant Due to the fact that Yale loses senior female diversity not only in terms of gender, but Professor men 353 faculty to other institutions, and data that also based on ethnicity. However, after women are less likely to be offered counter- discussions this year, the wff decided the offers, the wff initiated research into the issue merits its own working group. The 163 wff aims to create a Diversity Working Associate status of counteroffers­ given to women. Professor Due to the confidentiality of such data, Group in 2010–11. 256 Deputy Provost Rosenbluth will review

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0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 The OpEd Project Women in Physics Yale faculty, spring 2010 The Women Faculty Forum partnered with As part of the Women Faculty Forum’s Frances Rosenbluth, Deputy Provost for long standing commitment to support salary equity best practices with the Faculty of Arts and Faculty Development, to offer a full-day women in the sciences, we cosponsored the Prompted by the American Association of Sciences committee. seminar with the OpEd Project, an intia- 3rd Annual Conference for Undergraduate University Professors’ report on salary tive that trains female faculty to write for Women in Physics at Yale. The conference, equity in 2008–09, which identified a exit survey the op-ed pages of major print and online held on January 15–17, hosted under­ disparity between faculty at every rank The Women Faculty Forum Co-Chairs met publications. graduate Physics majors from schools in based on gender at Yale University, the with Frances Rosenbluth, Deputy Provost for Newspaper op-ed pages are over­ the northeast with the ultimate goal of wff Institutional Change Working Group Faculty Development and Diane Rodrigues, whelmingly dominated by men—over 80% increasing the representation of women in lobbied the Yale administration to assess Director of the Office of Faculty Develop- of op-eds are by male contributors. The Physics, as highlighted by the 2nd Interna- the cause of this inequity. The Committee ment and Diversity, who are working to statistics among academics are even worse: tional Union of Pure and Applied Physics on the Economic Status of the Faculty make the new tenure system more transpar- a May 2008 Rutgers University study found (iupap) Conference on Women in Physics. (cesof) was charged with investigating ent and accessible to the Yale professoriate. that 97% of op-eds by scholars in the Wall gender-based salary disparities, and the The Office hopes, eventually, to implement Street Journal are written by men. In light wff connected the Yale Medical School exit surveys. To that end, the wff shared of these statistics, the wff sponsored a full- Salary Equity Committee, chaired by Jody their past exit surveys and exit interview day seminar as part of our mentoring and Sindelar, with the cesof in order to share templates with Director Rodrigues. professional development program.

22 23 Connie Bagley and Priya Natarajan, the Sexual Misconduct Working Group Co-Chairs, Caregiving published the editorial below in the on the sexual misconduct report, titled “No silence, no fear: Preventing sexual misconduct at Yale.”

Caregiving has been a longstanding concern of the Women ybs networking event The Women Faculty Forum Council posted anonymous and third party reporting. Faculty Forum, as family unfriendly policies in academia its “Report on Sexual Misconduct at Yale” on We would like Yale to take proactive mea- have contributed to the underrepresentation of senior The Women Faculty Forum its website last night. Our goal in creating this sures in addition to reactive ones. We believe female faculty. and the Yale WorkLife report was to help Yale University develop and members of the community should receive In 2009–10, the Caregiving Co-Chairs Caren Gund- Program partnered to appropriately implement effective policies and ongoing training. In addition, a comprehen- host the Yale Babysitting berg and Amy Hungerford, streamlined the wff’s care- procedures to prevent and respond to sexual sive, single-point-of-entry online information Service Networking Event, giving efforts by focusing on finding a new site for the misconduct in accordance with best practices resource containing all of Yale‘s existing sexual a program that gives Yale and applicable law. In doing so, we hope to do misconduct policies, procedural options and Edith B. Jackson expansion that was postponed last year parents the opportunity to more than generate a series of rules. We seek to resources should be developed as soon as pos- for the third time. meet a variety of interested strengthen a community that values the open sible. To keep the Yale community informed They lobbied the administration to find and purchase a Yale babysitters. We hosted and free exchange of ideas, respects all of its of instances in which sexual misconduct has new site to increase the number of daycare spots, specifi- the YBS Networking Event diverse members and appreciates their unique occurred we ask that the standing committee cally infant care, that were offered to faculty in the central in November in the Hall of contributions. regularly gather, store and review data on sexual campus area. They collaborated with Deputy Provost Graduate Studies, and the We, therefore, recommend the implemen- misconduct at Yale and periodically disclose an Frances Rosenbluth to prioritize the increase of available event was successful and tation of a University-wide policy on sexual appropriate subset of that data, while honoring daycare to faculty parents as one of the administration’s beneficial, as 50 parents misconduct, defined broadly to encompass the guarantees of privacy and confidentiality. goals for the year. The wff supplied the Deputy Provost were able to meet with Yale full spectrum of gender-based offenses, includ- Finally, we believe Yale should develop Rosenbluth with a summary of relevant childcare issues student babysitters. Given ing harassment and assault. We believe it must a rapid-response plan to ensure the prompt the success of the event, the highlighted in the 2007 Status of Women in Medicine be applicable to all students, faculty and staff promulgation of information and updates on WFF and the Yale WorkLife (swim) childcare survey and the 2002 wff Report on throughout the University, with a single Sexual incidents of sexual misconduct and the Univer- program plan to host the Misconduct Grievance Board empowered to sity response thereto. Adopting such a policy Childcare, including lack of Yale-affiliated child care event again next year, with resolve all sexual-misconduct complaints. We would fulfill the ongoing Yale Tomorrow vision centers despite a high demand, lack of affordability of events both in the fall feel that such a policy is necessary to ensure of “strengthening Yale as a great place to study, childcare, and how having children impacts one’s academic and spring semesters. that responses to sexual misconduct will be teach, research and work.” We are proud to be work and chances at being tenured. clear, transparent, centralized and be regularly associated with a university that embodies the reevaluated and improved. This report is the ideals of openness, equal opportunity and social culmination of a year’s worth of research by the justice. As University President Richard Levin Report on Sexual Misconduct WFF Working Group on Sexual Misconduct has stated, “[In] the diversity of its students, to shed light on best practices for dealing with its global outlook and its outstanding research, We submitted the Women Faculty Forum Council Report on Sexual Misconduct at Yale issues of sexual misconduct in educational it is also a university of compelling change.” An to President Richard Levin, Provost , and General Counsel Dorothy Robin- institutions. We also discussed multiple earlier essential part of preserving a community that son on October 15, 2009. The report was well-received by the administration and bol- drafts with the University’s Office of Gen- values the differences of its members is creat- stered by positive press from the Yale Daily News in the articles “Report urges new eral Counsel and received input from a large ing a transparent system by which students, harassment board” and “Sex rules reviewed: Reports spur formation of new university number of University faculty, administrators faculty and staff may address grievances. committee.” The WFF Sexual Misconduct Working Group Co-Chairs, Connie Bagley and and staff. Each time someone engages in an act Implementation of our recommended policies of sexual misconduct, it is as an assault on our and procedures would establish Yale as a leader Priya Natarajan, also wrote an editorial for the Yale Daily News: “No silence, no fear: entire community and our values. We call on in preventing and responding to instances of Preventing sexual misconduct at Yale.” Yale to establish a standing committee charged sexual misconduct on university campuses. The Provost’s office appointed a committee of twelve faculty and administrators, with implementing and regularly reevaluating We invite all members of the Yale communi- chaired by Philosophy Department Chair, Michael Della Rocca, to review sexual miscon- a comprehensive policy at our University. Such ty to read our report and to use it as a catalyst to duct policies at Yale. The wff provided the committee with its own research into peer a policy would bar all forms of sexual miscon- provoke discussion and initiate change. Work- institutional policies and provided the expertise of the Working Group Co-Chairs as duct by any member of community (including ing together, we can make a difference. support for the committee’s work. faculty, staff and students) and would allow

24 25 Looking forward to 2010–11

At the tenth anniversary of the Women Faculty Forum, the WFF will continue to identify and address specific issues of concern to female faculty, research and publish data addressing the status of women at Yale University, and collaborate with schools, departments, and offices across the organization to create programming to discuss gender equity within the University.

Participants at the day-long OpEd Project seminar. activism Dean of the Graduate School, arranged for In 2010–11, we will continue to organize a portrait of Elizabeth Deering Hanscom, the majority of our research, program- the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at Yale Arun Storrs, Gender Equity ming, and activism through our issue- in 1894. Next year, the wff Working and Policy Postgraduate based Working Groups. We will establish Group on Public Thought Leadership will Associate, leads a walking two new groups: the Working Group on arrange for the portrait to be on display in tour of women’s history. Public Thought Leadership and the Work- the Sterling Memorial Library nave. ing Group on Increasing Faculty Diversity. The Diversity working group will focus The Working Group on Public Thought on issues specific to bias in the hiring, pro- Leadership will focus on communicating motion and mentoring of non-white ethnic scholarship to the public and increasing minority faculty. female representation in public sources, both at Yale and globally. This working research group consists of several projects, includ- We will continue our Yale-specific data ing: a documentary film addressing the lack collection monitoring the status of gender of female CEOs called What if it were the equity and diversity within the University Lehman Sisters?, the Kroon Girl Project to and update our report from 2007 by pub- celebrate women on Science Hill through lishing Women, Men, and Yale University: public art, and professional skill-building A View from 2011. and mentoring programs dedicated to pub- lic dissemination of scholarship, such as the programming OpEd Project. In our continued effort to share our work An additional initiative of the Working to the entire Yale community, we will Group on Public Thought Leadership is to organize two panels focusing on pay and increase the amount of women’s portraits negotiation across a variety of professional on the walls of Yale’s campus. After the schools. We will also host speakers from Women Faculty Forum 40th Anniversary inside and outside of Yale to speak about of Coeducation Celebration, Jon Butler, retaining women in academia.

26 27 the yale women faculty forum 2009–10 staff emerged from the effort, during Yale’s tercentennial year, to highlight the arun storrs, ba ’08 presence of women at the University Gender Equity and Policy and the accomplishments of Yale Postgraduate Associate alumnae. Faculty and staff from across the campus—from diverse fields in the jessica svendsen, ba ’09 college, the professional and graduate Gender Equity and Policy Postgraduate Associate schools—came together to develop programs for the Tercentennial. We edith rotkopf have accomplished a great deal; but Administrative Assistant there is more to do. To that end, with the support of the administration, including the President, the Council of the wff continues to work in conjunction with faculty, students, and interested alumni to foster gender equity. The mission of the wff is to: foster gender equity throughout the university; promote scholarship on gender and scholarship about and by women across all schools of the university; promote mentoring, collaboration, and networking.

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