Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

Author:   Erin Bennett ,  Anne Gardiner Perkins
Publisher:   HighBridge Audio
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9781665123853


Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating one thousand male leaders each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another, singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male culture they were unprepared to face. Yale Needs Women is the story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future. Note: This audiobook includes bonus content featuring the real voices behind Yale Needs Women: exclusive excerpts from author Anne Perkins's interviews with Shirley Daniels, Kit McClure, Lawrie Mifflin, Connie Royster, and Elizabeth Spahn.

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Author:   Erin Bennett ,  Anne Gardiner Perkins
Publisher:   HighBridge Audio
Imprint:   HighBridge Audio
ISBN:  

9781665123853


ISBN 10:   1665123850
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Erin Bennett is an award-winning stage actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her on-camera work includes Grandfathered and Children's Hospital, and her voice-over work spans animation, radio plays for the BBC, video games, and commercials for radio and television. Anne Gardiner Perkins grew up in Baltimore and attended Yale University, where she earned her BA in history and was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. She is also a Rhodes Scholar and completed a BA in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford University. She has spent her life in education, from urban high school teacher to state-level policy maker. She received her PhD in higher education at UMass Boston and has presented papers on higher education at leading conferences. She lives with her husband in Boston and in Harvard, Massachusetts.

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