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This hasn‘t been on my shelf too long (less than 3 years LOL). I believe it was a Dollar Tree find.
#littenkitten

Bought these at Dollar Tree

Be prepared I went on a bit of a binge today 😬

Got our bikes cleaned and oiled and ready to go and I‘m sitting on the porch with the pittie starting this tagged book. It‘s been interesting for the first few pages so I hope it continues. Yay spring!

Kicking off #summerfun with “on #TBR over 6 months”
@StayCurious @4thhouseontheleft

Another book I never would have read without Litsy,! This audiobook was so interesting,covering the first women admitted to Yale and what they experienced on a campus that did next to nothing to prepare for a coed learning environment and instead remained focus on the 1,000 male leaders expected to graduate from every class. I didn‘t expect this to be such a compelling listen but it really was. Highly recommended.

Here‘s two more @jenniferw88 #JennyIs30 I completed #CATS and #Feminism 😺💪🏽💄Really LOVED the tag book but my cat book ~ Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs was more #MehThanYeah and a #BorrowNotBuy

This book was absolutely brilliant!!! What could‘ve been a dry drudgery was in fact a riveting page turner. Anne Perkins covers 5 women and many others too as they become the first women to be admitted to Yale in 1969. This book explores much more than just the early days of coed education, it is follows the Vietnam War, segregation, the feminist movement and equal rights for women and minorities. This is truly #BookClubWorthy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Loving this book, an in depth look at the first group of women who were admitted to Yale. My first book for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa #NonFictionChallenge2020 and a shoutout to @Megabooks for putting this book on my radar 😍

It‘s blows my mind to think it was just 50 years ago that most top colleges didn‘t have sex-blind admissions. And we still haven‘t had a century of women‘s suffrage in America!

Perkins set to move away from the thought that “we admitted women & all was OK!” to the real story of the women (and a few men) who changed the culture and admissions at Yale.

But we still don‘t have parity in faculty and administrative positions. Still work to do! 4⭐️

A new kindle cover that matches my paperwhite came today. It‘s even prettier in person than the Etsy picture! I‘ve been reading/listening o the tagged book some today! I will be glad when my mom‘s bridge party is over and I can be off my “best behavior.” Lol 😂😂🥳🍾🎄

Okay so I may be a tad obsessed with my new paperwhite. Just a smidge. I‘m really glad to be able to read library ebook without eye strain!! Supper Club and Very Nice (ToB longlist!) are from the library and YNW is my holiday card listen along.

I guess you can consider this my #weeklyforecast Cindy!

I‘m also reading The Lager Queen of MN in print. 👍🏻👍🏻

This was a fascinating story about how women fought to end Yale's male only campus and become coed. Interesting story about the various movements that popped up on campus from support for Black panthers to anti war movement to finally enacting gender blind admission.

This was a delightful listen and very informative

#NFNov

I started this book after having bailed on The Woman Who Smashed Codes. Maybe I'll go back to it later.

I am really liking this Audiobook. This is interesting and fascinating. I had no idea Yale was all Male until the late 1960s.

Wow.

COMPLETED for #NFNov . Recommended. It‘s a behind-the-scenes look at how coeducation came into being at Yale in 1969, as well as a wider look at how the country was evolving on the issue at the same time. Although reading about it kind of dented Yale‘s reputation in my eyes.
@rsteve388 @Clwojick

#TIL Today in my reading for #NFNov I learned to my surprise that Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to the Civil Rights Act —which was intended to prohibit gender discrimination in places like colleges and universities—has a narrowly worded exemption for PRIVATE undergraduate admissions because Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth & Princeton lobbied hard against it. That exemption STILL STANDS today. 😡

@rsteve388 @Clwojick @Clwojick

#TIL The saddest thing I‘ve learned today in my #NFNov reading is how little progress we‘ve made as a society in the past 50 years. 🙁
@rsteve388 @Clwojick

#TIL Today in my reading for #NFNov I learned about the May Day protests that took place in the New Haven Green near the Yale Campus in 1970, and how the Yale community reacted in opening its doors to the protesters. This is fascinating to me —I was born and grew up in the town right next to New Haven and now I work there, and I never knew anything about this!
@rsteve388 @Clwojick

I don‘t even have words to describe how I feel about learning this fact in my #NFNov reading. #TIL
@rsteve388 @Clwojick

#NFNov Participants!

Real quick, I will count up points about twice a day in the morning and in the evening. So If I don't count you right away that's why! Also feel free to correct me if I make a mistake. I am human and sometimes get confused.. that's green banner for a finished book throws me sometimes!

#Enjoy #NFNov

A sobering statistic that meant highly qualified female applicants were rejected in favor of male candidates with less than stellar stats. #TIL for #NFNov
@rsteve388 @Clwojick

Next up for #NFNov. So far I‘ve learned (TIL) that Yale didn‘t open its doors to women because of any sense of gender equity in education, but because it was losing the best male applicants to Harvard (which had women at Radcliffe). Also, the first women admitted to Yale were not done so because of their academic & leadership skills — Yale sought women who had lots of brothers because they would need “grit” to live with men. @rsteve388 @Clwojick

Anne Gardiner Perkins speaks at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, about the challenges and discrimination faced by the first women who were allowed to enroll as undergraduates at Yale University in 1969.

Treating myself to hot chocolate and a cupcake while I wait for Anne Gardiner Perkins to talk about her new book at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT.

This was a really interesting book! If you like nonfiction about people who have been overlooked by history (a la Hidden Figures), check this one out when it comes out September 10.