"Mariam Chamberlain, who championed women’s causes at colleges and in the workplace, dies" by Paul Vitello | New York Times, April 13, 2013
NEW YORK — Dr. Mariam Chamberlain came to be known in the women’s movement as ‘‘the fairy godmother of women’s studies.’’
She earned the sobriquet as a program director for the Ford Foundation from 1971 to 1981, granting about $5 million in seed money to a few dozen groundbreaking academic studies, sociological projects, and statistical surveys that laid the groundwork for women’s studies departments and public policy research programs across the country.....
Do you know about the Ford Foundation?
Related: The Ford Foundation and the CIA
Oh, Amy!
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I don't know if she helped or hurt, ladies.
