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"The golden psychological moment for women, the moment at which their hopes were highest, was in the 1920s and 1930s, when they won the vote and began to go to college in considerable numbers, with the expectation of entering the professions," says Clare Boothe Luce, politician, diplomat and author. "Women...
This Fall, therefore, the Radcliffe Institute will offer to undergraduates a non--credit seminar called "Women in the Professions: Issues and Choices."
"Most women are still entering the traditional fields," she continued. "The course will question whether this indicates a structural channeling of women, whether women are specifically choosing the 'feminine' careers because this is where they feel comfortable, or whether parents discourage women from entering the professions."
"The course is not designed for consciousness--raising," Kahne said. "It will not be an encounter group, nor a cookbook course on life--styles. This is a time when institutions are in flux, and we hope to examine within a factual framework the present value system and the dynamics of...
The accelerating change is a result not only of the rise of Women's Lib (see TIME Essay, page 36), but of a complex of other social, legal and economic factors. Women are getting more formal education-42% of last June's college graduates were women-and they...