ABSTRACT
Mirra Komarovsky showed, in quantified detail, that even if one holds income constant girls still go to college nearer home than boys; they are kept on a tighter leash—and perhaps in many families their education isn’t thought to matter quite so much as the boys’. A study of the values sought by both sexes at the University of Michigan today indicates that the qualities are those we associate with good, “natural” human relations rather than with razzle-dazzle or rating-dating. Less carefully gathered but more revealing of total orientations were the questionnaires that Mademoiselle magazine sent out in 1954 to women undergraduates at a number of leading colleges and universities, and also to a few recent graduates. The musical culture and skills of the Bennington undergraduate today would surprise not only Tocqueville but the student’s grandmother.
