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| UK Women's League, 1923 Kentuckian |
One hundred year ago, coinciding with the end of the World War I and the achievement of suffrage by American women, the lives of women students at the University of Kentucky began to take a subtle turn. Influenced by the creation of Leagues of Women Voters chapters across the nation, students founded a Women's League at UK in the spring of 1920, with part of its purpose to bring "dormitory" women together with "the town girls." Additionally the League hoped to "bring to the university certain notable experts on vocations for women." Student culture was changing rapidly and the Women’s League advocated for additional personal freedoms for women students, a campaign that would last well into the 1960s on the UK campus.
Since 1880 UK women have sought equality at the University of
Kentucky. Information about the struggle and the women who led the push
for equality can be found in the recently published, Our Rightful
Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880-1945.
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