Word: laskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lillian Laskin Los Angeles
...carved out careers for ourselves without help from Radcliffe," says Muriel Levin Laskin, who after six years went to medical school and now practices as a psychiatrist in New York, teaches on the faculty of two medical schools and has full-time practice. "Not having found a man I wanted to marry, I could pursue a career...
Most of the women who did go on went to graduate school--Harvard Law had just opened to women, but the Business School was still closed to them--and got education degrees. "One became a teacher; it was very Victorian," Laskin says. Abigail Caplan Beutler, for example, who was the class bridge, marrying on graduation day, had majored in physics, but got a masters from Boston University's School of Education with the idea of getting a teaching job so her husband could go on for his doctorate. It was only later, in 1960, that she went back to school...