Women Of The Women's Colleges

Women of the Women's CollegesThe tempest struck last spring on a quiet, wooded campus in Oakland, California. Mills College--a prestigious 139-year-old liberal-arts school best known for its exclusively skirted student body--decided to permit men to enroll. The announcement was one in a long line of defections by all-female institutions. According to The Boston Globe, the national roster of women's schools had taken a beating over the past several decades, its number atrophying from 298 in 1960...