• Question: @harrietfletcher were there many girls in your class at uni?

    Asked by ellemccann to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Ken Gibbs

      Ken Gibbs answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      I am going to note that there were no women in our final class at Cape Town University in 1965. At that time, South Africa was highly conservative and calvanist, and white men were seen as the only really valuable members of society. Happily, things have changed somewhat.

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