A high-ranking administrator at Yale University recently emailed all fraternities on campus to encourage them to allow women to join.
Sent by Associate Vice President of Student Life Burgwell Howard, the email came on the heels of a longstanding activist effort by feminist students to make fraternities let women join in the name of “equity and inclusion,” exemplified by Harvard University’s recent decision to forbid membership in “unrecognized single-gender social organizations.”
“A number of you have mentioned concerns you have or have had regarding Yale students who may be interested in participating in your rush/recruitment process, but their gender identity or expression may not allow them to be offered membership in your national organizations,” Howard wrote in an email sent only to fraternity presidents last Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by The Yale Daily News.
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The push to make Yale fraternities gender-neutral is being spearheaded by Engender, a group led by Yale students under the direction of a Senior Advisory Board that includes both Anita Hill, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings, and Lisa Wade, the Occidental College professor who recently asserted that “masculinity itself has become the problem.”
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