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Bunting-Smith had a very different idea about women??s education. As she stated in a 1966 address to Southern Methodist University, higher education should “provide freedom and backing for those of identified ability and high motivation to move as their talent takes them.” Universities, she said, “must seek to develop the potentialities of people in all segments of society,” an idea that is implicit in the concept of democracy...
Bunting-Smith spoke openly about the unfortunate disparities in the way that society viewed education for men and women??a mindset that she hoped to change...
...Universities in this country have found it convenient to prejudge women??s potential contribution for leadership,” she said. “What I ask is that they experiment...
...address to the University Women??s Forum, Bunting-Smith said that a woman’s expected role as a wife and mother should not prevent her from joining the workforce—rather, educational institutions should be expected to cater to her unique needs...
Although Bunting-Smith’s tenure predated the emergence of the women??s rights movements of the late 1960s and ’70s, many Radcliffe alumni became actively involved after they graduated...