Ways & Means
S3 Episode 4: How Sputnik Sent Women to College
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:20:54
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Synopsis
Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppress the number of women on campus. Some colleges excluded women entirely. There's a curious backstory to how more women ended up in college, and it starts with the Soviet’s launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957. In this episode: turning politics of crisis into a law that eventually opened the door to college to millions of American women.