In the early days of the University of North Carolina, classrooms were filled with only male students. But with trailblazers like Sallie Walker Stockard, Kitty Carmichael and Inez Stacy, women at Carolina progressed to a central role in campus life.
“This history of women at Carolina is a movement from being concerned with how we would be talked about on campus to thinking about how we want to talk about ourselves,” said Sarah George-Waterfield ’19 (PhD), who shared the story of women’s history at Carolina with many campus visitors.
She tells the stories of several pioneers, including the first group of female students who studied full time at Carolina in 1897.
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Learn more on Well Said: Pioneers of Progress for Women at Carolina