From Wiki:
“In the early 1980s, she publicly alleged that Harvard had denied her tenure (1980) because she was a woman, a charge which was found to be justified by an internal review committee in 1981, by which point she was teaching at the University of Chicago. In 1985, Harvard offered her a tenured position (its first ever for a female sociologist), which she accepted.”
Typical. Sounds like she's a typical ‘insulated from reality’ sociologist with Marxist sympathies. She represents the radical fringe - which means she's an Obama supporter.