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Surprisingly, Columbia didn’t accept women until 1983. Like Harvard and Radcliffe, it was affiliated with the all-female Barnard. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/

• ghaff 3y ago
  A lot of well-known private colleges/universities were single-sex, albeit sometimes with exchange programs/affiliates, until relatively recently and there remain significant single-sex, especially all-women, colleges today. Dartmouth, another Ivy, didn't go co-ed until 1972. A lot of universities, especially those more focused on science and engineering, that were technically co-ed--even from their start in the 1800s--also didn't have a lot of women for a long time. The percentage of women at MIT was still under 20% in the late seventies.