Winner of the Bridgewater State College Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began enteri

Traces the history of the struggle of women to achieve equality in American colleges from Colonial times to the present

In Women In College, Mirra Komarovsky followed her groundbreaking works on gender roles to focus on the essentialist debate. Komarovsky interviewed post-WWII ge

Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but lea

Over the past 25 years, research findings have continued to underscore the direct and positive impact of women's colleges--institutions where the academic aspir