In this 1983 essay, delivered as a speech at the 65th SSW Anniversary, Dean Ann Hartman, M.S.S. 1954, examined assumptions and implications with regard to world view and epistemologies. She offered the claim by Carol Gilligan in her book, In A Different Voice that women have a different way of thinking than men and asked what the implications are of that insight.
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Janna Malamud Smith, “A Place of Her Own,” 1998
Throughout history, women have been denied the benefits of privacy. All that changed with Roe V. Wade. Here, the author of Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life examines the important role privacy plays in women’s lives.
Dorothy Atwill on Achieving Work-Life Balance in 1928
In this article, a psychiatric social worker contends with challenges of work-life balance that will seem familiar to many working women ninety years later.
Mary Jarrett, “Careers for Women by the Ablest Women,” 1921
SSW Founder Mary Jarrett on why psychiatric social work made a good career for women. Part of “a series of 75 articles describing occupations open to women. Each article is written by an expert in that particular field and presents frankly and concisely the advantages, the disadvantages, the salary, the opportunities, the qualifications, and the best preparation for each vocation.”
Elizabeth Moore Manwell, “Out of the Nest Means Mothers Too,” 1962
Elizabeth Moore Manwell, one of the first SSW graduates, wrote this essay for the Smith Alumnae Quarterly in 1962. She asked, “Society needs unselfish women leaders, now more than ever, for the great women pioneers have gone but injustice and misery have not. Who will take their places?”
Marian Schneider, “Nourish Your Magnolia,” 1979
In this 1979 essay, Marian Schneider, M.S.S. 1960, reflects on divorce from the perspective of a marriage and family therapist and someone who has been divorced for a long time.
Angelika Robertson, “Focus on Women,” 1979
In this 1979 essay, Angelika Robertson describes the projects she and other fellows pursued while at the SSW New Research Center. She frames the value of the center to her professional life through the lens of coming back to academia after having her second child.
Everett Kimball and F. Stuart Chapin Discuss College Women
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