Education: From Coeducation to Equality

During the 1968 campus uprising at Columbia, nearly half the students who "liberated" university buildings were girls from Barnard College. But while the men mounted the barricades, the women mostly sat in the back rooms, cranking out leaflets or making peanut-butter sandwiches. Many of them resolved then and there never again to defer to male "machismo trippers." Since that time, the cause of Women's Lib in academe has flourished. Next to local voting rights, it is now the most visible cause on major campuses that otherwise seem free of controversy and revolt this...

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