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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."

by klik99 3y ago

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

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."

by 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