Meet the women of Yale: Eleven online exhibits document their impressive legacy
March 10, 2023
Women have excelled as students, faculty, and leaders at Yale College for 54 years and in Yale’s graduate and professional schools for 154—and they have been involved in the life of the university in other, less visible ways since the founding.
An array of online exhibits documents the history of women at Yale, including many women whose contributions and impact were undervalued in their day.
- 12 Portraits: Studies of Women at Yale
- 50 Years of Women’s Varsity Athletics at Yale: A Historic Retrospective
- 100 Years of Women at Yale School of Medicine
- Bulldog and Panther: The 1970 May Day Rally and Yale
- A History of Women at the Yale School of Architecture
- A Herstory of Yale Divinity School: Women at YDS, 1907–Today
- Musical Daughters of Eli: Women Pioneers at Yale
- Not a ‘Harem’: Codding, Eisenhardt, Stanton, and the Lives and Legacies of Dr. Harvey Cushing’s Female Associates
- “We Thought of Ourselves as Architects”: Coeducation and the Yale Campus, 1968–73
- We Were Always Here: Celebrating All Women at Yale
- Yale School of Nursing: Better Health for All People
Image: Brenda Zlamany, portrait of the first seven women to earn PhDs at Yale in 1894 (detail): Cornelia H. B. Rogers, Sara Bulkley Rogers, Margaretta Palmer, Mary Augusta Scott, Laura Johnson Wylie, Charlotte Fitch Roberts, and Elizabeth Deering Hanscom. Painting on view in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library.
