being into being the radcliffe institute as we know it today and in 2007, it's first dean, drew gilpenfast, became president of harvard university. [ applause ] fas, in its under graduate and graduate admissions set a goal of women graduates. it came at a time of commitment not to just women as a category but to women in all their diver diversity. the same years, the african american and latino students grew in pace. it has been argued that while women were empowered by the movement for women's liberation, the men were likely persuaded by the civil rights movement. once you have removed the barriers for african americans how do you justify a quota from women or bar them from a library. the struggle was not easy, and nor was the outcome sure. what raised the opposition was the fight waged at the turn of the 1970s by students and n.o.w .to get a 1-1 female/male ratio. listen to this expert. when i hear -- see bright well educated, but relatively dull housewives who attended the seven sisters, i honestly shudder of changing the balance of males versus females at harvard, quite simply i do not