| Women were first admitted to the School
of Technology in 1938. Gladys Lovinger entered City College as a civil engineering
student in 1938 after first having been accepted at MIT. Financial consideration
prevented her from accepting MIT’s offer and she entered City College
in September 1938. She left City College without a degree after a physics
professor, openly biased against women students, gave her such a poor
grade that she could not qualify for civil engineering courses.
By January 1940 nine women had enrolled. By 1950 women in the School
were able to establish a chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (shown
here).
From the 1940s on, especially with the assistance of Prof. Cecile Froehlich
who joined City College in 1945, more and more women were admitted
into the School of Technology. |
