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Article: 'Some activity in regard to the admission of women'.(Phi Delta Kappa's membership)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Although women had long represented a majority of educators, Phi Delta Kappa remained an all-male organization through 1973. Ms. Weith recounts how the foresight and perseverance of several PDK members led to a new era for the association.
There has been some activity in regard
to the admission of women into
Phi Delta Kappa. The extent of the
activity is such that the Board may
want to give consideration to it.
--Lowell C. Rose
So began a report to the PDK board of directors, written in February 1971 by "brand-new" Executive Secretary Lowell Rose, that would take him, the board, and Phi Delta Kappa on a historic ride that would ...