my interview with Donna Halper today

[A Joseph Ross]

On 1/7/2013 9:41 PM, Jibguy@aol.com wrote:

> Same here.... When I went to Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.)
> (1967-71), the college station, WITR had at least two females on the air with
> regular airshifts, and none of us ever gave it a second thought, nor  did
> anyone ever say "that's odd."    This, too was a college  where the ratio of
> men to women was 6:1 .
>   
> Looking back, are we to assume that other places may be more enlightened
> than Boston and Cambridge?

The ratios in the student body undoubtedly had an effect.  At UMass in 
the early 1960s, we had a lot more "co-eds" than at other places.  MIT 
allowed women but apparently actively discouraged them at the time.  I 
remember hearing something on TV at some point about MIT being somewhat 
reluctant to admit a woman because she was taking the place of a man, 
and obviously a man was going to use his education to support a family 
and contribute to his profession, while a woman was just going to get 
married and raise children.  It seems so strange now, but that was the 
assumption back then in a lot of places.

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