" If I had to do it again, I would approach the students differently. I would talk to the women and when there was a consensus that they would like a women's class, I would talk to the men separately. If the women were agreed that they wanted a women's class, it could be arranged like that; the other class could be a regular class, with all the men in it and any women who didn't want to be in the women's class.

This is a re-learning of something I already knew - that women who want to make their situation better have to get together and figure out what they want and strategize about how to get it before they talk to people in power about it.

It might have been possible to go ahead with splitting the classes without consulting the students - certainly that was not required by the administration, but I think the class would be stronger if the women were involved in the decision.

Kate Nonesuch, Interview 2