Guide to Nice Girls: Women in the Business School presentation SC1348
Jenny Johnson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
May 2017
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Nice Girls: Women in the Business School presentation
creator:
Phillips, Susan
creator:
Thornton, Anne
creator:
West, Barbara
Identifier/Call Number: SC1348
Physical Description:
.75 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1971-1994
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information
on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Content Description
Slides, 3 audio tapes, and scripts.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Susan Phillips, Anne Thornton, and Barbara West, 2017.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Nice Girls: Women in the Business School presentation (SC1348). Department of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical / Historical
The project was self-initiated and self-sponsored by the student creators (and one very supportive spouse), who were motivated
to reflect upon and tell the story of their unique experiences as a very small minority of women students in a graduate program
with an all-male faculty and a predominantly male student body.
While some photographs were taken during the prior ’70-71 school year, the majority of the photography, all of the voice
recordings and the full show production occurred during the Summer of 1971, the summer break between our first and second
years in the program. This self-produced multimedia show was motivated by the desire to document and share our extraordinary
experience of being women MBA students in a very small gender minority in our class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
While other Stanford professional graduate schools such as the Stanford Law School and Stanford School of Medicine were already
educating classes with good percentages of female students, our MBA Class of 1972 had only five women students (three MBAs
and two MBA/JDs) in a class of over 300 students and prior MBA classes had similarly small numbers of female students.
The completed show was presented to multiple audiences during the 1971-72 academic year including a performance given in the
GSB auditorium as a special noontime program for the GSB student body, faculty and staff. The show was also performed about
a month later for the Biz Wives, a student spouses' club.
At the invitation of Gary Williams, the GSB Admissions Dean, the three creators Anne, Barbara and Susan gave an invited presentation
to the Graduate Business Admissions Council (a nation-wide consortium of Admissions Deans for elite U.S. graduate business
schools). The creators and a fourth female classmate, Leonade Jones, accompanied Dean Williams on a GSB MBA recruiting tour
to Eastern colleges and the show was a featured part of the campus presentations aimed at encouraging female applicants.
As a result of Dean Williams’s initiatives and leadership, the number of female applicants and female students grew steadily
in the immediately following years.
There was also a formal presentation of the show around 1994-95 for a Stanford GSB conference of women students and alumni.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women college students -- California.
Stanford University. Graduate School of Business
Phillips, Susan
Thornton, Anne
West, Barbara
box 1
Nice Girls
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
box 1
unlabeled
Physical Description: 1 videotape reel(s)
box 1
Nice Girl Show-dupe "kinda bad quality"
Physical Description: 1 videotape reel(s)
box 1, folder 6
Women in the Business School (script)
Additional Audiovisual Material Accession ARCH-2018-208
Box 1
3rd Annual Women's History Month Celebration
1994 Mar 8
Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (vhs)
