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In 1961, Harvard Told Married Women They Probably Shouldn't Bother Studying Urban Planning
An amazing look back at an applicant's correspondence with the Graduate School of Design.
Longtime Washington Post restaurant critic Phyllis Richman originally wanted to be an urban planner, although she never got much farther than sending off an initial grad-school application to the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
An assistant professor in the department, William A. Doebele, Jr., sent her back this letter, which was reprinted 52 years later in Sunday's Washington Post: