Lack of female Young Trustees disconcerting
(01/31/11 10:41am)
The position of Young Trustee was instated in 1970 to incorporate Duke undergraduate community members into the governing board of their University. Forty-one years later, women have remained conspicuously absent from the ranks of this role. The last female Young Trustee to serve on the Board, Katie Laidlaw, concluded her term in 2006; she remains the sole woman to take this position in the first decade of the 21st century. Unfortunately, there have been only three women in this role in the past 17 years.