ABSTRACT
Starting with a group of women who had successful careers, the author examines data about their personal and educational histories in a search for patterns and possible clues to their success. In this sense, the author's study was impersonal: it did not attempt to explore the sacrifices and obstacles, the deprivations or psychological costs that these women faced on their road to achievement. The college may be an important factor in whether the talented women who enter emerge and follow the road to success. Both the married and unmarried graduates of women's colleges were more likely to become successful career women than were their coed counterparts. Women teachers as role models for women students are thus a critical ingredient of a college environment that turns out talented women. The relationship between men students and women achievers is just the opposite: the greater the number of men students, the fewer the number of women graduates who become achievers.
