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Similar to today, in the 1970s, the Boston area was home to many colleges and universities. We invite you to explore what it was like to be a female professor at some of these institutions.
Header Photo: "Train Departing Boston South Station 1970s," Amtrack Corporate Collection, accessed December 6, 2022, https://history.amtrak.com/archives/train-departing-boston-south-street-station-1970s.
“Timeline: Women at BC Through the Years.” Boston College Magazine, 2022. https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-magazine/summer-2021/features/women-through-the-years.html.
"A Boston State College Building on Huntington Avenue in the Snow", Photograph. Boston: Northeastern University Library, January 1963. Northeastern University Libraries. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20155892.
Cushing, George. Exterior View of Moors Hall. Photograph. Cambridge, 1950. Radcliffe College Archives. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork309327/catalog.
"McCormick Hall Construction circa 1966", Photograph. First MIT Dorm for Women Was Far from Campus, in the Home of a Grad Who Also Provided Shuttles. Cambridge: Cambridge Day, 2021. Cambridge Historical Commission. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/12/27/first-mit-dorm-for-women-was-far-from-campus-in-the-home-of-a-grad-who-also-provided-shuttles/.
Gillooly, John, “Exterior of Suffolk University's Sawyer Building (8 Ashburton Place), 1970-1979,” Moakley Archive & Institute, https://moakleyarchive.omeka.net/items/show/14500.
Where are these Institutions?
Where are these Institutions?
Look around this map of the Boston area to see where some of the institutions are located now.
Keep in mind:
Today, some of the institutions highlighted have merged with other universities, like Radcliffe College is now a part of Harvard University and Boston State College is now a part of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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