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

In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it?



The experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing camp...