“Gentlemen — let’s face it — charming as women are — they get to be a drag if you are forced to asso
“Gentlemen — let’s face it — charming as women are — they get to be a drag if you are forced to associate with them each and every day,” a Yale graduate wrote to the school’s alumni magazine in the 1970s. This quote speaks volumes on the fight to make Ivy League universities admit women.• • • It wasn’t until 1977 that Harvard merged with its affiliated all-female college, Radcliffe, and started admitting women. Yale and Princeton didn’t begin admitting women until 1969. Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia didn’t offer admission to women until 1971, 1972 and 1981, respectively. Other Ivy Leagues had different policies, the University of Pennsylvania began accepting women on a case-by-case basis in 1876, and Cornell notably admitted its first female student in 1870.• • • Thirty years later, in the early 2000s, women accounted for half the undergraduates at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, and are beginning to be named presidents of Ivy League universities. Art by Liberal Jane Illustration -- source link
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