Stone says she feels the hockey squad receives everything they need.
"It's always been on a needbase. We've always received everything we've wanted," she says.
Nevertheless, the discrepancies still exist. While coaches and teams often receive the needed resources they request, some athletes and coaches say a mentality has existed within the department in which women don't always think to ask for what they'd like.
Sarah M. Demers '99, a member of the women's lightweight crew team, says this was the case when the men's lightweight crew team went to England this past summer after winning the national title.
"When they win something that big, they usually go over to Henley [England]," Demers says.
The women's lightweights also won the national title, but they did not make a similar trip.
"We never even thought of it. We never even asked," she says.
Henry says she worries that misperceptions about equity issues lead students looking only at numbers to see inequity where none exits. "Perceptions feel real," she says.
One recommendation of the NCAA self-study involved increasing communication between coaches, students and administrators, so that "coaches of women's teams are aware of all the resources available to them."
And with this increased communication, the mentality of a double standard is being removed.
Elizabeth H. O'Leary, head coach of the women's heavyweight crew team, says women's coaches are now asking for what they need.
"The group of women's coaches at this university is not a shy group," O'Leary said. "We've all learned, some of us the hard way, that we need to step up and ask for what we need, not because the athletic department isn't receptive to us, just because [before] we didn't know that we could or should ask. Where I had coached previously, you had to go out and hold bake sales for what you needed."
And Demers says that this year the team is thinking of making the trip to England.
In March, peer reviewers from other universities will visit the athletic department, conduct interviews, and write their own report in which they determine whether Harvard complies with NCAA guidelines and should be certified by the organization. As with all studies, this will continue to push Harvard toward self-scrutiny.
Coaches say they are hopeful that, as much progress as has already been accomplished, true equity is just on the horizon.
"It's coming in admissions, it's coming in the facilities. It's frustrating when there isn't more movement, [but] it's an on-going process. It doesn't happen overnight," says O'Leary.