unwilling to weather the storm of criticism. -- gay, who became the first black president in the second woman to lead the university and all of harva's 387 year story, published an op-ed and in the new york times, she wrote, it's not lost on me that i make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes of american campuses, a black woman selected to lead a storied institution. claudine gay was in the top job when the most prestigious universities in the world, this may come as a shocker to some folks out there, black women don't get handed anything without qualifications, especially president of the most prestigious university in the world. if anything, we need to go above and beyond to prove our worth. as women, especially women of color, especially black women, we need to be unicorns to break glass ceilings just earn half asuch as our white male counterparts.