MIT Materials Department tenure discrimination settlement / tenured-woman case

I might as well tell the story, since people like stories. There was a faculty member in our department when I was department head — she's passed away now. She was very aggressive. She worked very hard, and she got tenure. She may have been the first tenured woman in the department, and she got tenure while I was there. I presented her tenure case. But she was very demanding. She thought we should have one TA for every two students in the lab course. I said, well, I don't know that we have a budget for that. Well, you're the department head, you should come up with a budget.