Proposals Ask Pusey Admit More Women

The National Organization for Women (NOW) yesterday met with President Pusey and presented him with proposals for increasing the number of women students and faculty members at Harvard to a one to one male-female ratio.

The "Proposals for Ending Sex Discrimination at Harvard University" put forth by the women's civil rights group are:

"That women be included at each level of each faculty in a proportion at least equal to the proportion of women who earn Harvard degrees.

"That the faculties of the University formally affirm the desirability of an ultimate male-female ratio of one to one among graduates as well as among undergraduates, with an equitable distribution of financial aid.

"That graduate programs and professorships be made flexible enough to provide for those people unable to devote full time to their studies and careers.

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"That Harvard establish childcare centers where care will be offered to children of all members of the Harvard community in order that their parents may have sufficient time each day to pursue their studies or careers.

"That salary inequities between men and women on Harvard's non-teaching staff be eliminated and that jobs traditionally filled by women (secretarial, library, research)-be remunerated according to prevailing Boston area pay scales.

The women said after their half-hour conference with Pusey that they next plan to call a University-wide meeting to discuss strategy. They said that they have been in touch with other women's groups in the University.

Recently a separate group of women faculty members requested that John T. Dunlop, acting dean of the Faculty, appoint a Faculty committee to examine the status of women at Harvard.

The women present at the meeting with Pusey were Jane Pollock, who re-ceived her doctorate from Harvard this year and is president of NOW, Nancy Vaillant '55, vice president of NOW, and Ann Thornton '69, president of the Harvard Women's Law Student Association.

Mrs. Thornton said after the meeting that the percentage of women in the University should be brought up to that of the nation as a whole. "What is right is 51 per cent. That's what we're asking for," she said.

NOW presented figures which show that in none of the faculties or graduate programs, with the exception of the master's degree programs at the Education school, do women compose 51 per cent of the total.

The women proposed that if Harvard and Radcliffe do merge, women should compose one half of the college student body, even if this means decreasing the male enrollment. They said that Pusey told them he is opposed to reducing the number of men in the college.

Miss Pollock said that residency and course load requirements could be made more flexible for women with families. She also advocated giving qualified women part time jobs in the University. "Why deprive the University of their wisdom and services?" she said.