March 01, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

One woman's career in academe
Professor Dorothy Zinberg speaks about the changing roles of women at Harvard.

The Big Picture
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Dorothy Zinberg on women's changing status at Harvard: Cambridge in the 1960s was still a place full of "unemployed or underemployed women Ph.D.'s who were busy studying Julia Child and making fabulous dinners..." Zinberg says. "Everything had to be right. The professional life, the children, the entertaining, and the social life. Now you see the shift into a much more realistic, informal lifestyle, with the man as likely to be in the kitchen as the woman..." Full story

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