The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937
by
Ann Karus Meeropol
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women’s college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in...