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Science 12 November 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5443, p. 1275
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5443.1275
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
MIT as 'Intractable Enemy'

Andrew Lawler

In 1994, the same year that tenured women at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were taking grievances to their superiors and finding a compassionate ear in the school of science (see main text), the administration was fighting a messy sex discrimination suit involving the school of engineering. The suit was filed by Gretchen Kalonji, an associate professor in the materials science and engineering department, who argued that she was qualified for tenure and had been discriminated against because she was female.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)