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TIL in 1925 it was thought that the Sun had no elemental difference from the Earth, and women were barred from becoming professors at Harvard. Basically dark ag

TIL in 1925 it was thought that the Sun had no elemental difference from the Earth, and women were barred from becoming professors at Harvard. Basically dark ages.

klik99 3y ago
Not just that - also "She completed her studies, but was not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948."
- peterleiser 3y ago
  Wow! Almost 75 years after UC Berkeley: https://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/150-years-women-berkeley https://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/150-years-women-berkeley
- jll29 3y ago
  I was equally shocked to read that. But in context, the 20th century was still in large parts dark ages for women regarding their rights. For instance, I just read they were only permitted to vote in parts of Switzerland from 1990! > The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
- bandrami 3y ago
  It's a kind of depressingly common stage in institutions becoming coeducational: many of them allowed women to take classes for years (townies, daughters of faculty, etc.) but didn't fully integrate them into the academic experience; they generally didn't formally matriculate and were often either granted no degrees or given a "lady's degree" without a graduation ceremony.
  - Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
    The famous story is Philippa Fawcett, who took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams at a time when women weren't officially placed on the ranked list of successful candidates. Her official exam result was listed as "above the Senior Wrangler"- in other words, above the top male candidate. 15 years later Fawcett became one of the "steamboat ladies"- women who took advantage of a long-standing agreement (that still exists in a limited form today) between Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin that graduates of one university can receive the same degree from another one without further examination. When Dublin began to award degrees to women in 1904, they briefly opened this arrangement to women who had passed exams at Oxford or Cambridge that would have entitled them to degrees had they been men. Several hundred British Oxbridge alumnae travelled to Dublin to graduate, and the fees they paid financed the construction of a hall of residence for Dublin's female students.
- worik 3y ago
  "...Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” For half the money, too, probably
favorited 3y ago
Women couldn't even be Harvard students, never mind professors! Her diploma would have said "Radcliffe College" - they didn't start putting the name Harvard alongside Radcliffe for another few decades.
bsza 3y ago
You think meteors burn because of air friction, and your clothes were made by slaves. Future will judge you. (disclaimer: these are just educated guesses, I don't actually know you)
- farrarstan 3y ago
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avgcorrection 3y ago
> TIL ..., and women were barred from becoming professors at Harvard. Is anyone surprised?

TIL in 1925 it was thought that the Sun had no elemental difference from the Earth, and women were barred from becoming professors at Harvard. Basically dark ages.

klik99 3y ago

Not just that - also "She completed her studies, but was not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948."

peterleiser 3y ago
Wow! Almost 75 years after UC Berkeley: https://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/150-years-women-berkeley https://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/150-years-women-berkeley
jll29 3y ago
I was equally shocked to read that. But in context, the 20th century was still in large parts dark ages for women regarding their rights. For instance, I just read they were only permitted to vote in parts of Switzerland from 1990! > The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
bandrami 3y ago
It's a kind of depressingly common stage in institutions becoming coeducational: many of them allowed women to take classes for years (townies, daughters of faculty, etc.) but didn't fully integrate them into the academic experience; they generally didn't formally matriculate and were often either granted no degrees or given a "lady's degree" without a graduation ceremony.
- Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
  The famous story is Philippa Fawcett, who took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams at a time when women weren't officially placed on the ranked list of successful candidates. Her official exam result was listed as "above the Senior Wrangler"- in other words, above the top male candidate. 15 years later Fawcett became one of the "steamboat ladies"- women who took advantage of a long-standing agreement (that still exists in a limited form today) between Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin that graduates of one university can receive the same degree from another one without further examination. When Dublin began to award degrees to women in 1904, they briefly opened this arrangement to women who had passed exams at Oxford or Cambridge that would have entitled them to degrees had they been men. Several hundred British Oxbridge alumnae travelled to Dublin to graduate, and the fees they paid financed the construction of a hall of residence for Dublin's female students.
worik 3y ago
"...Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” For half the money, too, probably

favorited 3y ago

Women couldn't even be Harvard students, never mind professors! Her diploma would have said "Radcliffe College" - they didn't start putting the name Harvard alongside Radcliffe for another few decades.

bsza 3y ago

You think meteors burn because of air friction, and your clothes were made by slaves. Future will judge you. (disclaimer: these are just educated guesses, I don't actually know you)

farrarstan 3y ago
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avgcorrection 3y ago

> TIL ..., and women were barred from becoming professors at Harvard. Is anyone surprised?