#GAReads | Historic Rejection Letters to Women Engineers
"Historic Rejection Letters to Women Engineers":
The Society of Women Engineers recently shared a trove of astonishing documentsfrom the group’s archives. They’re letters, loads of them, all directed at women engineering students who had contacted various universities about their interest in connecting with other women studying engineering.
Lou Alta Melton and Hilda Counts, both students at the University of Colorado in 1919, were trying to start their own professional society. Their letters—and the many responses they received—are part of the Society of Women Engineers sprawling archives, which are housed at Wayne State University in Detroit.