<p>it is a good point. however, most board members, phds, members of congress, etc are in their 40s-60s, thus they attended college in the 50s-70s, a time when many (most?) elite private colleges were only for men."</p>
<p>My college (Williams) was admitting women in 1971, and some of the Ivies were earlier. That would make graduates from that period 50-57 years old. So simply take Congresspeople who are between the ages of 40-50, if you like. There are no females from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, the list can go on. </p>
<p>Tammy Baldwin graduated from Smith in 1984. She was born in 1962. You’d think there would be at least one IVY/AWS female grad from that period in Congress? I can tell you that I have read the alumni review from my alm mater for more than three decades, and the record of performance of the female grads is distinctly and decidedly underwhelming - and it doesn’t matter whether one looks to politicians, writers, artists, performers, doctors, or business executives. Why that is so is a really good question.</p>