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To: greenspirit who wrote (142968)	10/14/2005 3:12:39 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

I also wonder how many women even went to Harvard Law or Yale Law 40 years ago when she would have been her twenties? That's a valid point... Derek

To: greenspirit who wrote (142968)	10/14/2005 4:07:42 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

<< how many women even went to Harvard Law or Yale Law 40 years ago >> Not many, probably just the cream of the crop. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended Harvard Law 47 years ago: Harvard Law School (1956-58), Harvard Law Review; Columbia Law School, LL.B. (J.D.) 1959, Columbia Law Review, Kent Scholar. There were excellent law schools outside of the Ivies too. Sandra Day O'Connor: Stanford Law School; LL.B., 1952, Order of the Coif, Board of Editors, Stanford Law Review.

To: greenspirit who wrote (142968)	10/14/2005 11:55:34 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793914

I also wonder how many women even went to Harvard Law or Yale Law 40 years ago when she would have been her twenties? Well, this just shows that Harvard doesn't always get the cream of the crop.... BUT the point really is look at the few numbers of women who graduated from Harvard Law this early.... Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where she was a debating champion at Coral Gables High School. In 1956 Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self Government Association, and earned her room and board. In 1960 Reno enrolled at Harvard Law School, one of only sixteen women in a class of more than 500 students. She received her LL.B. from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman. answers.com