Lotte Bailyn, the T. Wilson Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management and co-director of the MIT Workplace Center, will speak Thursday, April 18, at the University of Delaware.

Her talk, UD’s second annual Women of Excellence Lecture, begins at 4:30 p.m. in the theatre of the Trabant University Center, Main Street and South College Avenue, Newark. Her topic is “Gender Equity in Academia: Lessons from the MIT Experience,” and the talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow.

In 1998, three women faculty members at MIT sent shockwaves through the institution after their discoveries about the underlying, persistent, marginalization of senior women faculty. The discoveries of these women began changes in a number of large institutions of higher education across the nation.

As Scott Smallwood wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Female professors at MIT, even when paid about the same as their male colleagues, often feel like second-class members of the faculty, according to a new study…released on the status of women throughout the institution. The reports follow up on the well-known 1999 study of female professors in MIT’s School of Science…”

Between 1997-1999, Bailyn was chairperson of the MIT faculty, and during 1995-1997 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe’s Public Policy Institute.

The lecture is presented by the Commission on the Status of Women, Women in Science and Engineering, Office of the Vice President for Administration, Office of Women’s Affairs and the Visiting Women Scholars Fund.

For more information, call (302) 831-8065.

April 12, 2002