----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- My information about women being allowed to attend classes at Harvard at 1943 comes from the official website of Radcliffe College (now Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard): [http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/sig.html]. I quote: "1943--During World War II, Harvard and Radcliffe sign an agreement allowing women students into Harvard classrooms for the first time." This must refer to undergraduate classes. What happened to graduate courses? It must have been too expensive to duplicate these courses, as Barbara Bergmann points out. She is quite clear: "women and men sat together in the same classrooms, both as graduates and undergraduates, at least in the 1950s. They also took the same exams." But they got different diplomas: male from Harvard, female from Radcliffe. The official website of Radcliffe says that this situation changed... in 1963! I quote: "1963--Radcliffe students receive Harvard diplomas signed by both presidents. Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is opened to women and Radcliffe Graduate School closes". If Eleanor Dulles finished her dissertation in April 1926 (as Roger Sandilands points out), it must have been from Radcliffe; so did Elisabeth Boody in 1934, with Schumpeter and A. P. Usher as supervisors. What is not clear to me is how graduate studies were organized for Radcliffe women students: The situation described by Barbara Bergmann may well have been usual since the 20s. This would be consistent with the information from the dairy of a Harvard graduate student in 1926. (I hope in the 50s women students didn't have to sit at the back). But I have not managed to fit together all this (apparently) contradictory information. The book _A biographical dictionary of women economists_ edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget is a wonderful set of information, but I cannot solve the question of how graduate classes and exams were set for Radcliffe women economists within Harvard faculty. (The idea I got from another entries in the Dictionary is that Berkeley or Chicago were decades ahead of Harvard in having women economists in its faculty) The contributors to the dictionary have a lot more information about the women who appear in it and more about others who were not finally included. I want to thank specially Jim Thomas, of the LSE, who wrote the entry on Elisabeth Waterman Gilboy. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]