We haven't yet consecrated a woman bishop but we've called our first woman Dean and any number of women are Archdeacons.

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Representing the university administration at the meeting was Melanie Boyd, director of undergraduate studies in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and special adviser to the dean of Yale College and the student-run Women's Center.

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When Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the future Supreme Court justice, went to Harvard Law School, the dean held a dinner for the handful of women in the class.

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That daunting statistic is one of the reasons Nadine Katz, senior associate dean, professor and director of medical education in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, got interested in helping aspiring female med school professors achieve their goals.

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Cyprus chose to bring men's tennis players instead of women's players, because "The boys have better potential, " said Dean Georgiou, assistant national coach.

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They want the identity of "Stanfordtroll, " who started a mean discussion thread ("Stupid Bitch to Attend Yale Law") saying that one of the women would be sodomized, had herpes, had a lesbian affair with the admissions dean and had botched admissions tests.

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And admitting students before they have started families could bring more women and international students into business schools, says Mr. Jain, who will take over as dean of the international INSEAD business school in March.

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