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...exhibit shows a changing landscape at the school. With a student body that is 52 percent female and a faculty that is 40 percent female, the gender composition of HDS is vastly different than in 1955 when only eight females matriculated...
According to the Bible, Adam was the first to inhabit the Garden of Eden, but Eve arrived soon after. The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) took longer to achieve such gender integration, but is now celebrating 50 years of women at the school...
...years after its founding, HDS allowed women to enroll at the school for the first time. Though the school lagged behind many of its peer institutions in allowing females to matriculate, HDS has since pioneered the study of women in religion...
...Though women were not an official presence at the school until mid-century, women had always been a part of HDS, either as staff or family members...
...HDS alumni first petitioned the school to admit women, but co-education wasn’t a priority for then-University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853. He opted for a plan that increased ethnic diversity among men instead...