If you take federal money, you must bow to the federal rules.
Harvard could do what it wants because it doesn’t need those federal dollars, but that wouldn’t be at all politically correct, would it.
After Lawrence Summers gave that commencement address, saying that women had not made many real contributions to science and mathematics, the women at Harvard went nuts, fired Summers, and re-wrote a whole lot of the curriculum to favor women, feminizing the sciences by making it relate more to every day life and the environment. In other words, they dumbed down the science courses in order to feminize them.
Harvard STILL wants those bucks...and actually I think they NEED those bucks nowadays.