The Story of Women in the 1950s (book review)

[CTyankee]

1. As a young girl in the 50s I experienced this, altho my parents had as much

expectations for me as my brother for a college education. The sad reality was that this expectation really impeded women's intellectual advancement. What a hard slog that was! When the male Ivy League schools finally opened enrollment to women it was a big deal. The 7 Sisters women's colleges, founded to counter the male Ivies that denied them entry to their undergraduate college, were pressured to do the same. My daughter went to one, Mt. Holyoke, that refused to not be a woman's school. I think Smith College does as well. Women, it seems, thrive better in an all woman college experience than in a co-ed one. But my daughter's 3 daughters want nothing to do with their mom's alma mater. Sad but I get it...