01724cam a2200313 i 4500 1846892875 TxAuBib 20240720120000.0 190614s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024227 9781492687740 hardcover 149268774X hardcover DLC eng rda DLC TLC rda TxAuBib rda Perkins, Anne Gardiner, author. Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant / Anne Gardiner Perkins. Naperville : Sourcebooks, [2019] 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 268 years of men -- Superwomen -- A thousand male leaders -- Consciousness -- Sex-blind -- Margaret asks for the Mike -- The sisterhood -- Breaking the rules -- The opposition -- Reinforcements -- Tanks versus BB guns -- Mountain moving day. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20240720. Yale University History. Women in higher education. Sexism in higher education. Women college students Connecticut New Haven History.