March 14, 2022

Heritage Project — Women apart

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Year by year, the situation of women at Michigan had been transformed. The change was well underway by 1900 and quite complete by 1920. Where women students had once fended for themselves and mixed freely with men, they now lived in a segregated, regulated and tightly supervised sphere marked “Women Only.” The pattern of women’s lives outside the classroom that would prevail until the 1960s and ’70s had been set.
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