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Yale Needs Women: The First Ivy League Girls and Their Fight for a Seat at the Head of the Class

af Anne Gardiner Perkins

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"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"--… (mere)
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  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
It was fascinating to me when I learned that until about a fifty years ago, many of the elite universities in the US didn’t allow women to apply, so I was very much interested to read this book and know the history of how Yale finally decided to allow women and what kind of challenges these young women faced in such an old all male environment.

The story here focuses mainly on five students but we also meet many other women and people in the administration who strived in their own ways to challenge the status quo and make the application process gender blind. I was very inspired by these women who took up this unprecedented challenge and made me a mark of their own. But it was also quite disappointing to see so many of the men in powerful positions including the president of Yale believe that the university’s goal of nurturing future leaders of the country didn’t include women, and that the minuscule number of them who got into the university should just be grateful for the opportunity. The numerous barriers they created and how unsupportive they were made me quite angry, but kudos to the women who believed in equity as a virtue and their own worth, and never gave up on their goals.

This is definitely an important piece of history and I would recommend the book to anyone who likes reading historical feminist works - because this is a great insight into the fact that gender discrimination was made unlawful only a few decades ago and we still have a long way to go. The audiobook is also narrated very well and kept me engaged throughout. ( )
  ksahitya1987 | Aug 20, 2021 |
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 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. ( )
  JanaRose1 | Sep 30, 2020 |
Summary: The history of Yale's first women's class, entering in 1969, and the challenges of transitioning an all-male institution to co-education.

Before the fall of 1969, Yale had been an all-male institution for 268 years. They had a stated goal of admitting 1000 men each year, the future leaders of the country. In 1968, pressure built upon Kingman Brewster, popular president of Yale, to open Yale to women. Male students declared "Yale needs women." Up until then women were bussed in on weekends from nearby schools to provide a social life. Hardly a satisfactory solution. Other schools like Harvard were co-ed. Faculty and many alumni pressed for this change. Reluctantly, Brewster, and the Yale Board yielded.

The decision was made to admit 230 women in 1969. Elga Wasserman, former Chemistry professor and assistant dean was tasked to handle the transition to coeducation. She recognized they would need "strong" women to enter this all-male domain. This book suggests that the women who were admitted admirably met that criteria, but that it would take more than that. It traces these first four years through the experiences of several of those women. We see how each carved out their own niche while contending with the male-dominated structure of Yale.

To begin with, there was an eight to one imbalance with men. There were heavy pressures to date, and sexual assault and harassment before it was named. Women were distributed among the eight colleges and so isolated from each others. There were no varsity women's sports. It was an uphill battle to get locks on the bathrooms. Most women had only male faculty.

Elga Wasserman, along with the women, had to fight against the structures that resisted change. Students joined, creating some of the early feminist organizations like the Sisterhood. A couple on faculty, Philip and Lorna Sarrel, led some of the early sexual education work as pioneers in the field. Eventually, Morey's dropped its male-only dining policy. Wasserman herself struggled, being designated "special assistant" rather than dean or VP.

Eventually advocacy focused on gender blind admissions. Many superior women applicants were rejected in favor of inferior male applicants in the skewed ratio of 1000 to 230. Things would not change until after the first class graduated.

Today, it is hard to believe some of this went on. The book shows how far more is needed than a change in admissions policy. Structures, policies, and traditions need to change as well. What the book highlights are the pioneers, and some enlightened allies, who persisted, who were the "edge of the wedge" of change.

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary review e-galley of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. ( )
  BobonBooks | Oct 17, 2019 |
I was particularly interested in reading this book as I also found myself an unlikely pioneer in college......among the first women attending Washington and Lee University in 1985. We numbered only 100 of 1600 undergrads on campus. I found many similarities, not all of them positive, between my experiences and those of the women of Yale in 1969. This book is well-written and easily engages the reader with the lives of 5 women as well as many other figures at the university at that time. There are some fascinating details, including the shadows of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war protests, looming among these students battling for equality in their secondary education. I think this book is a must-read for those interested in the evolution of university coeducation as well as women’s rights. We must study history, not ignore or destroy it, in order to learn how to better ourselves for the future. This is a great study in the history of American education. ( )
  LizBurkhart | Sep 5, 2019 |
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