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Re "Harvard Case Study: Gender Equity" (front page, Sept. 8):
I very much support the attempt to level the playing field. However, I was wondering why the women were encouraged to adopt male characteristics (such as assertively raising their hands in class, talking more than listening) in order to be successful. Why not train men to understand the differences, rather than having the women act more like men?
Surely institutions need diversity for success. Women and society need successful female role models who behave like women. The diversity should be celebrated and nurtured.
CAROLINE KENDE ROBB
Geneva, Sept. 9, 2013
To the Editor:
The deans of Harvard Business School may be astounded by the fast improvement of the performance of the women students, but I am not. I suggest that the performance of women has not changed at all. It was most likely always equal to that of the men, just judged differently.
Educating faculty about bias in grading and creating a fair participation environment in the classroom may have been all that was needed to more appropriately measure their performance.
JULIE CORWIN
Somerville, Mass., Sept. 8, 2013
To the Editor:
As a 1980 graduate of Harvard Business School, I was disturbed to read your article on gender equity. While the problems described are real, this social engineering experiment sounds like a force fit destined to leave everyone bewildered (à la affirmative action).
More disturbing to me was the depiction of the students as being privileged and status-seeking. The school's efforts to create a diverse student body are apparently falling short in the area of socioeconomics, making for a narrow and self-reinforcing experience for the privileged.
Gender issues have much currency today, but women aren't the only ones to feel alienated in an environment like Harvard Business School. The school implicitly fosters an environment of anxiety and cutthroat competition as a gantlet to be run in preparation for the real world. If Harvard Business School wants to be a true leader in business education, I'd suggest that it look at its socioeconomic mix and explore ways to raise the tide to "lift all boats."
DAVE GRAZIANO
Short Hills, N.J., Sept. 9, 2013
To the Editor:
When I attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business 30 years ago, there was no razzing of female professors for the simple reason that female professors were virtually nonexistent. And as is the case now, women were more hesitant than their male counterparts to participate in discussions.
But while we were disadvantaged by the lack of role models and the social norms that forbade women from interrupting, I never experienced the indignities — hazing or being openly addressed in crude terms — that is apparently occurring at Harvard today.
In the intervening decades, has our society been moving in the wrong direction, or does Harvard simply have a culture of devaluing women?
WENDY GARDNER
Bedford, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2013
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