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<p>In the 70s there was a famous study of done in which it was demonstrated that women who attended the Seven Sisters colleges NOT affiliated with a male school (Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, et al) had out-achieved the graduates of the women’s colleges that were affiliated with male schools (Radcliffe, Barnard, Pembroke, et al) in the post-college world of work. I remember Mattina Horner, then the president of Radcliffe, citing it in some public forum.</p>
<p>It never ceases to amaze me that people will deride women who are willing to be independent of men. The idea that Wellesley, for example, is cozy and “nurturing” and that it produces shrinking violets who are afraid to compete with men is indeed worthy of a big snort of laughter.</p>