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- Title
Sociology in the Women's Annex: Inequality and Integration at Harvard and Radcliffe, 1879-1947.
- Authors
Nichols, Lawrence T.
- Abstract
This article examines gender stratification in sociology by analyzing how the subject was presented to undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1940s. Data for relevant courses in economics and social ethics, as well as sociology, demonstrate that women were disadvantaged throughout the period. The analysis also shows, however, that women gradually attained relative equality, and argues that gender integration was always a covert goal of Harvard's policy of "coordinate education." The article explains the process of equalization in terms of cooperative relationships in informal work groups. Ironically, however, integration disempowered Harvard faculty and Radcliffe administrators while augmenting the power of Harvard's centralizing administration.
- Subjects
GENDER inequality; EQUALITY; SOCIOLOGY; COLLEGE students; HARVARD University; RADCLIFFE College
- Publication
American Sociologist, 1997, Vol 28, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
0003-1232
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12108-997-1011-6