Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant

by Anne Gardiner Perkins

Paper Book, 2019

Status

Available

Publication

Naperville : Sourcebooks, [2019]

Description

"Yale University, along with the rest of the Ivy League, kept its gates closed to women until the class of 1969. The reason for letting them in? As an incentive for men to attend. Yale Needs Women is the story of why the most elite schools in the nation refused women for so long, and what the first women to enter those halls faced when they stepped onto campus"--

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LibraryThing member JanaRose1
In 1970, Yale admitted its first class of women. Not because it wanted to, not because women were smart and intelligent and deserved the best, but because it wanted to continue to draw in men. The women were spread out among multiple colleges and isolated from one another. Their safety, their
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comfort, were given little thought. Their fellow students, treated them as oddities and curiosities.

This book followed a handful of the women first admitted into Yale. It didn't focus on anyone long enough to give them real personality, or to forge a real connection with the reader. I have to admit, this book was extremely dry and slow moving. I had to force myself to keep reading, rather than putting it down and starting a new book. Overall, a bit of a disappointment.
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ISBN

9781492687740

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