10.04.07
Testament of Youth: Eleventh Post (Women’s Degrees)
It must have been amazing to have lived when women first got awarded degrees at university. To have watched college presidents being awarded diplomas alongside their students and to know that those were the women who made it all possible. Even knowing that it should have come long before and there was still more work ahead, it must have been incredible! I have so much respect for the women who made that possible, the women who fought and the women who became students without knowing if they would ever receive any official recognition for their work. I, and the women of my generation as well as our mothers, grandmothers and female descendants, owe them a lot!