Description
- Abstract:
- Penelope Hartland-Thunberg begins this interview by focusing on her education. She describes her academic achievements at Brown University, as well as the significance of being the only Pembroke student to concentrate in Economics. She details her educational and social experiences at both Brown and Radcliffe, where she received her Ph.D. The interview then transitions to Hartland-Thunberg's career, which began with a teaching appointment in Brown's Department of Economics. She describes her interview with Brown University President Henry Wriston. Hartland-Thunberg later worked as a researcher and analyst at the CIA and the Council of Economic Advisers. In 1963 she was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the Tariff Commission (now the International Trade Commission), the first woman to serve as a Commissioner and one of the few women in high positions in government at the time. She also discusses serving as the Chair of President Lyndon Johnson's group on women's issues; and her involvement on the Brown University Corporation. Throughout this interview, she notes the sexism she faced in various academic and professional situations.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1940
- Biographical note: Penelope Hartland-Thunberg was born on June 17, 1918 in Fiona, Massachusetts and graduated from Brown University in 1940. As a student in Pembroke College, she studied Economics, served as President of the Student Government Association, and was Editor of the Pembroke Record. She went on to receive her Ph.D. in Economics from Radcliffe. In 1946, she returned to Brown as one of the school's first female professors, but left the University after learning that she would not be promoted to associate professor and went on to a career in the Federal government, culminating in a Presidential appointment to the Tariff Commission.
Citation
"Penelope Claire Hartland, class of 1940"
(1996).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:705182/
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Penelope Hartland, class of 1940 Part 1
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Penelope Hartland, class of 1940 Part 3
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Penelope Hartland, class of 1940 Part 3
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Penelope Hartland, class of 1940 Part 3
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Penelope Hartland, class of 1940 Part 3
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...