Title
A Very English Revolution: The Impacts of Co-Residence at the University of Oxford
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men’s colleges and men to women’s colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as that of women undergraduates and postgraduates and today women comprise still only a third of academics in the colleges of the university; the fellowships of the former female colleges became genuinely mixed, the fellowships of the former male colleges more slowly; women are less likely to be appointed head of a former men’s college than are men to be appointed head of a former women’s college; the quality of Oxford undergraduates rose with the increased number of female undergraduates; and the quality of undergraduates in the former male colleges rose at the expense of the female colleges.
DOI
10.1080/0046760X.2020.1752821
Publisher
Routledge
Repository Citation
Ahlburg, D. A., & McCall, B. P. (2020). A very English revolution: The impacts of co-residence at the University of Oxford. History of Education, 49(5), 682-706. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2020.1752821
Publication Information
History of Education