{"id":39,"date":"2018-02-25T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssppit.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/25\/2018-2-23-s3e4-how-sputnik-sent-women-to-college\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:38:31","slug":"s3e4-how-sputnik-sent-women-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2018\/02\/25\/s3e4-how-sputnik-sent-women-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"S3 Episode 4: How Sputnik Sent Women to College"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn’t always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppress the number of women on campus. Some colleges excluded women entirely. <\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a curious backstory to how more women ended up in college, and it starts with the Soviet\u2019s launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957.<\/span><\/p>\n