- Title Information
- Title
- Penelope Claire Hartland, class of 1940
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Penelope Claire Hartland-Thunberg, class of 1940
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hartland, Penelope Claire
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Buc, Nancy L.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1996-09-07
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1940
- Note:
Biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1940s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Sexism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Politics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Feminism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender expectations
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)