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...Shortly after the merger, President Derek C. Bok abolished the fixed 4 to 1 male to female admissions ratio--only to replace it with a ratio...
...Despite the glitches the status of women was slowly improving. One of the last hurdles to official equality, the fixed male-female ratio, fell with remarkable speed in the spring of 1975. In one semester, an equal access plan--proposed by a faculty committee led by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch--was approved by the Faculty, Bok and the University's governing boards, the Corporation and the Board of Overseers...
...recently completed campaign was the first in the school's history and enabled it to increase the number of endowed professorships from eight to 24, thereby decreasing the student to faculty ratio...
...change in College life came in 1971, when an agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe provided that women could live in the previously all-male Yard beginning in 1972. But Harvard had problems adjusting to a co-ed campus. The social scene could, at times, be frustrating, and the lopsided ratio of men to women at Harvard emphasized this sense of intimidation...
When Mills came to Harvard in the fall of 1971, the integration of women into College life was just beginning. There was only one woman for every four men at the College; Mills says that ratio was even more skewed in her concentration--economics...