25 years of progress

·Spring 1972: Two female students ask Penn administrators to create a program in Women's Studies.·Spring 1972: Two female students ask Penn administrators to create a program in Women's Studies.·April 1973: After a rash of campus rapes, a women's group stages a sit-in at College Hall to protest Penn's inaction. The protests led to the creation of the program.·Spring 1972: Two female students ask Penn administrators to create a program in Women's Studies.·April 1973: After a rash of campus rapes, a women's group stages a sit-in at College Hall to protest Penn's inaction. The protests led to the creation of the program.·Fall 1973: The first undergraduate seminars in the new program are unveiled. Later that year, the program gets its first full-time professors.·Spring 1972: Two female students ask Penn administrators to create a program in Women's Studies.·April 1973: After a rash of campus rapes, a women's group stages a sit-in at College Hall to protest Penn's inaction. The protests led to the creation of the program.·Fall 1973: The first undergraduate seminars in the new program are unveiled. Later that year, the program gets its first full-time professors.·Fall 1977: The program grows to more than 40 distinct courses.·Spring 1972: Two female students ask Penn administrators to create a program in Women's Studies.·April 1973: After a rash of campus rapes, a women's group stages a sit-in at College Hall to protest Penn's inaction. The protests led to the creation of the program.·Fall 1973: The first undergraduate seminars in the new program are unveiled. Later that year, the program gets its first full-time professors.·Fall 1977: The program grows to more than 40 distinct courses.·Fall 1998: The Women's Studies Program marks its 25th anniversary.