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“In my courses, the teachers told me about a world in which ostensibly one-half the human race is doing everything significant and the other half doesn’t exist,” Dr. Lerner told The Chicago Tribune in 1993. “I asked myself how this checked against my own life experience. ‘This is garbage; this is not the world in which I have lived,’ I said.”

Back in 1972, Gerda Lerner established what is widely credited as the first graduate program in women’s history in the United States at Sarah Lawrence; it was her goal to make the subject a legitimate part of “every curriculum on every level.” Read her full New York Times obituary here.