Hopkins: Pioneering change at MIT
Cambridge, Mass | 2024年7月8日
Rafael L Bras, ScD
Hopkins: Pioneering change at MIT
Three decades ago, Prof Nancy Hopkins spearheaded a pioneering gender study at MIT
Not Alone: Conversation with Leaders brings you the spoken words of leaders who have changed the world of research, academia and business. In 1994, Dr Nancy Hopkins 打開新的分頁/視窗, Professor of Biology at MIT, had enough. She finally concluded that she was suffering gender discrimination. In an extraordinary example of leadership by consensus, 17 women professors at MIT’s School of Science produced a report 打開新的分頁/視窗 that changed the dynamics of gender in the professoriate at MIT and the United States. Prof Hopkins is a “reluctant leader”— but what a leader she is! Enjoy it.
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