{"id":353,"date":"2002-03-18T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T06:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/03\/18\/353.html"},"modified":"2002-03-18T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T06:26:28","slug":"gender-equity-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/03\/18\/gender-equity-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender equity at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MIT has completed their study of the status of women faculty at the school; see <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/nr\/2002\/genderequity.html\">press release<\/a>, which contains a pointer to the full 100-page report.  I'm amused at this bit of the press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the report, a woman professor at one point asked [MIT Provost Robert A.] Brown, a professor of chemical engineering, whether these complex problems were really fixable. The provost \"seemed quite taken aback,\" the report said. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is MIT,\" Brown replied. \"We're engineers. Engineers solve problems.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can't decide whether that's charming, inspirational, or blind.  (Especially given that it was a woman who asked the question and a man who answered it.)  Maybe a mix of all of those.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has completed their study of the status of women faculty at the school; see press release, which contains a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}