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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Scripps and Barnard are fine because you are part of a larger co-ed population of college students, but I don't really want my girls to go to a women's college (and they don't either).  I work in a male-dominated field and I think being able to work with men on projects and even compete with them is going to be important for most women in the working world.  I also think that alumni networks are important and unfortunately a lot of the people who are in a position of power and can open doors for you will be men and not women.  Finally, a lot of people who live in my affluent community met their significant others in college (even if they did not date until some time after college) and I think meeting the right person is hard and don't see why one would want to limit that.[/quote]

All of this.

Other than the false sense of some kind of wholesome, safer environment for women, there is really no reason to send your girls to an all girls school.

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Op here. Would you all say that the alumni networks are weak across given the women who attend from a social promotion perspective as in they are stagnant after graduation or did not tend to do better than their parents? Or are women in these networks less able to reach the ladder top overall due to just being female in the USA?

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I am the PP who provided the comment about alumni networks, among the three reasons why I am not a fan of women's colleges.  I did not say that all of the alumni networks of the women's colleges are weak.  To the contrary, as another poster who went to Wellesley pointed out, Wellesley has a famously strong alumni network and I do know several Wellesley graduates who are spectacularly successful in their careers.

For me though, being in a male dominated industry means that my mentors have all been men and the people who have promoted me to where I am today (highest I can go) have been men because a fair amount of women opt out after getting married or having kids (I know it's difficult - I have three teenagers myself).  Most are not alums from my college, but I was able to get my first job through a male alum of my college (who had no other connection to me) and if I needed a job today, I would certainly reach out to my college alumni network to see if people want to have coffee with me, etc.

Also, the women's colleges are all small LACs, so they're just going to be smaller networks overall.  I am biased, because I would rather send my kid to a large state school than to a LAC for the alumni network and opportunities, but obviously people will disagree with me.[/quote]

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