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As you all know a lot of things happened in 1968, namely, Yale's first female admittance's in November 9. Why is this important you ask? Well, let us tell you. This was one of the many events that helped expand the feminist movement’s influence across the nation. Not only fighting for equal education for females to the same qualities of male education, the feminist movement managed to change the single-sex status of colleges such as Princeton University to become coeducational in the following year.
Admittance Amount
Despite the number of applicants to the number of available seats being ten times greater, leaving a 10% acceptance rate in the year of 1973. The 230 females with the 1,029 males that were admitted accounted for 18.3 percent females of Yale that year. Regardless, the feminist movement managed to create one of the major changes to quality co educational education for both genders; as the numbers grow to a larger percentage to 48.8% for female admittance rates since 2017. Fine arts was the primary major being taken.
Jobs Acquired by Women
Since all women were still a tiny presence in most professions, only three percent of the country’s lawyers, for example, and seven percent of physicians. Most professional women were confined to ‘sex-typed’ occupations: legal aid jobs rather than private practice, pediatrics rather than surgery, ‘women’s page’ writers rather than feature reporters, and so on” (Kabaservice 336).
Colleges that followed the trend
Bowdoin University
Williams University
University of Virginia
Citations
Yale’s Female Admittance
“Yale Will Admit Women in 1969; May Have Coeducational Housing | News.” The Harvard Crimson,
Price, Helen. “THE INTRODUCTION OF COEDUCATION AT YALE, 1969-1973.” The Yale Historical Review |, historicalreview.yale.edu/.
Women’s professions:
Kabaservice, Geoffrey M. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. Holt, 2004.
Female percentage:
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/yale-university/student-life/diversity/chart-gender-diversity.html
Colleges Following Yale: https://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/years-that-mens-colleges-became-co-ed/366/