Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

"Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the exertions of those who precede us."—Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls

If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity i...