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Are Women's Colleges Still Needed?

Washington Post - On Leadership Blog

September 3, 2010

Doubters of women's colleges will inevitably ask how such schools can prepare wome - in a female only environment - to navigate a coed world. The findings, from not one or two, but several studies, show that women's colleges actually do it quite well. According to a multi-year study by Hardwick Day, alumni of women's colleges are more likely than all other graduates to serve in a leadership role within their undergraduate college or university.

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