Forty Years of Women at New College: How Did They Get Here?
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(2020): 13
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The original proposal to admit women to the men’s colleges of Oxford University came from New College, and College formed a Committee on Women which met for the first time on 18 March 1964. The conclusion of that committee still resonates today—‘We believe that only in a community in which the ratio between the sexes is not too far from 1:1 can benefits of a mixed society be fully achieved’.
The Seven Cardinal Virtues, stained glass in the Antechapel of New College
Designed by Sir Joshua Reynolds and painted by Thomas Jervais (1779–85)