Women at Brown

PROVIDENCE--A high-ranking committee on the status of women at Brown has made sweeping recommendations to remedy what it characterized as women's lack of confidence, role models and skills to attain the high goals they have set for themselves.

The task force urged that the university implement periodic self-reviews to remain aware of women's changing needs, sponsor programs to increase undergraduate contact with women scholars--including a special program of visiting women professors--and sponsor counseling services to smooth women's adjustment to Brown and the outside world.

The study noted that while women make up 50 per cent of the undergraduate body, enter Brown with higher high school grades and report that they work harder in college than their male peers, a smaller proportion of women than men receive A's in college courses.

The report also noted that a great number of undergraduate women, while having ambitious career goals, do not feel they should work when their children are young.