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Schuyler told me about the moment when this inequality dawned on her. At a club with her friends, she realized: "It was very subtle, but the girls had this feeling that if I do this, these boys will think I’m fun, and they need to think I?...
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL?
In recent years, as the movement to integrate final clubs has sputtered out, efforts to remedy these problems have come to focus on creating all-female social space to serve as a counterweight to the male clubs. The trend began in 1991, when the Bee was founded with the help...
But there are limits to this "separate but equal" approach. The first is that women’s clubs will find it difficult to compensate for their male counterparts’ 219-year head start. The opportunities for acquiring wealth and real estate that existed in the late 19th century?...
Many cavalierly dismiss objections by asserting that final clubs are just like fraternities at other schools. I’m not entirely sure that this is true—the concentration of wealth and power in Harvard’s clubs seems fairly unique—but even if it...