ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with six themes in the education of clever women, and their subsequent careers, in the period since 1945. What the chapter chronicles is as uncomfortable for a feminist as the story of Marathon for a Persian. The themes are the loss of feminist faith in the elite girls’ schools, the unintended consequences of coeducation for girls and teachers, and the failure of science educators, novelists, and social scientists to pay attention to the fact that the feminist education campaign had lost momentum.
