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  Women's Initiative Report (page 1)

  Report on the 2003 Women's Initiative featuring the concept of the"effortless perfection" demanded of female undergraduate students at Duke.
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  Women's initiative

  President Nannerl Keohane spearheaded the Duke Women's Initiative in 2003, hoping to evaluate and improve the climate for all women who work and study at Duke. The report, created by a committee of administrative staff and professors, identified concerns about professional mentoring, dating culture, gender/sexual diversity, parental leave, and more. The Initiative led to the creation of many new programs, including the Baldwin Scholars, an undergraduate women's leadership organization named for the first Woman's College dean, Alice Baldwin.

  Tags 2000s, Administration
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  Women's college placemat - Few Graduate Quadrangle

  This placemat depicting the newly-constructed Few Graduate Quadrangle may have been used at the Woman's College. Author and Woman’s College faculty member G. Hope Summerall Chamberlain designed the placemat. Notice the illustrations of dogwoods, now the North Carolina state flower. The Few Graduate Quadrangle was named after President William Preston Few. The creation of this placemat coincides with Duke’s first Centennial celebration, which occurred in the 1938-1939 academic year.

  Tags 1930s, Student Life
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  Women's Baseball, 1941

  Two women play baseball on the Woman's College campus at Duke University (now East Campus) in 1941.
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  Women's Baseball, 1939

  Women at Duke play baseball on May 6, 1939. They are playing on what is currently the field hockey field on East Campus (then known as the Woman's College campus). The women's baseball team was sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association.
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  Women, one wearing crown

  Six women and a man. The man is placing a beauty pageant-style crown on one woman's head.
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  Women speaking to children in classroom

  circa 1950s or 1960s
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  Women Scientific Illustrators

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  Women in the Economy Class at the Rubenstein Library

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  Women in the Economy Class at the Rubenstein Library

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  Women in the Economy Class at the Rubenstein Library

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  Women in auditorium

  Two rows of women, one standing and one seating, smile for the camera in an auditorium.
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  Women engineering students in class, ca. 1943.

  From the University Archives Photograph Collection, 1861-[ongoing].
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  Women at party

  Five women in party dresses smile for the camera at a ball or other function.
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  Women at 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival

  Women with name badges, possibly N.C. Mutual employees working as volunteers, stand beneath a sign reading "U.S. Olympic Festival '87. Corporate host: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company." The U.S. Olympic Festival was held in North Carolina's Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) in 1987.
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  Women and man working in office

  N.C. Mutual employees seated at desks, working at variety of typewriters and adding machines.
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  Woman's Rights Commensurate with Her Capacities and Obligations: A Series of Tracts

  This volume gathers together important speeches and essays from the early women’s rights movement in the United States. Most of the texts were read at Women’s Rights Conventions in Worcester (1850) or Syracuse (1852). Contents include the Declaration of Sentiments from Seneca Falls, and speeches by important leaders in the movement such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angelina Grimke, and Paulina Davis. This copy has evidence of women’s ownership, with a small inscription on the first page, “Miss Diana James Book.”

  Tags 1800s, Suffrage
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  Woman's College Student Government Gavel

  The Duke Woman’s College, founded in 1930, served as one of the most rigorous academic institutions for women until its 1972 merger with Trinity College. The Woman’s College offered professional and academic guidance for students, welcoming students from thirty-three states and multiple foreign countries. As early as 1935, Duke women were encouraged to create community and participate in student organizations, including the Women’s Athletic Association, the Women’s Orchestra, the student-edited publication Distaff, and the Woman’s College Student Government. This gavel highlights the names of the Woman’s College Student Government Presidents from 1938 to 1954.

  Tags 1950s, Student Life, Student Organizations
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  Woman with NBC 17 news van

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  Woman with Arched Back
  Bronx, NY 2002

  Photographs © Jonathan Hyman
  Jonathan Hyman Photography Collection