"[W]e didn't fully understand what we were getting into -- what
obstacles we would encounter, what trails we would blaze....We just
knew, from an early age, that we wanted both to serve our country,
help make our world a little better and a little safer -- just like
our fathers and our brothers -- and to marry; rear honest, happy
children; and lead fulfilling personal lives -- just like our
mothers.""
-- from the Introduction
To illustrate the challenges facing women of her generation,
author Judith Richards Hope describes the lives and careers of a
handful of barrier-breaking women, including herself, from Harvard
Law School's pivotal class of 1964, who fought and overcame
preconceptions and prejudices against their entering what, at the
time, was a male vocation. Despite their struggles in law school
and in the workplace, they maintained their ambition and ultimately
achieved remarkable success. They look back on law school as a time
of enormous personal and intellectual growth.
In 1961, before modern civil rights legislation and women's
liberation, women were generally regarded as undesirable candidates
for law studies. Most law firms believed that women couldn't keep
up the pace, that they couldn't avoid emotional outbursts, and that
their place was in the home. Nonetheless, 48 women applied to
Harvard Law that year, 22 were accepted, and 15 graduated in a
class of 513. The rigorous training at Harvard Law taught these
women to survive and to thrive in one of the toughest, most
competitive professions in the country. It took grit, confidence,
resourcefulness, thick skins, and a certain irreverence for them to
succeed. These qualities propelled Judith Richards Hope and her
classmates into some of the most prominent careers of their
generation, yet they did not sacrifice their more traditional
female roles. Their achievements have helped pave the way for women
of subsequent generations.
"Pinstripes & Pearls" illuminates the extraordinary
trajectories of these women -- among them Pat Schroeder, Judith W.
Rogers, and Hope herself -- who forged an old-girl network and
became lifelong friends. Through compelling and often witty
anecdotes, unprecedented archival research of Harvard records, and
revealing testaments to the difficulties faced by women harboring
serious career goals, "Pinstripes & Pearls" personifies in
these women the emergence of a new type of American female, one
whose "goal is to reach the destination, not just to avoid
humiliation on the way."
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