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Although the major changes in behavior took place between 1968 and 1972, this is an ongoing process with the proportions of people following each of the standards changing over time. The following table gives the percentage of women by class who had had sexual intercourse at my university during two critical years.

Year	1968	1972
Freshmen	15	50
Sophomore	26	55
Junior	35	55
Senior	50	47

The tipping point in changing sexual behavior from an abstinence/double standard came in 1968 (some would say 1969). By 1972 our entering freshmen were considerably more likely to have had sexual intercourse than the freshmen of 1968.

A multitude of factors had led up to this marked change in behavior, particularly among the female students, and it was interesting to see it happening right before my eyes. Of course, it wasn’t only sex behavior that was changing. It was women’s attitudes about what fields should be open to them as careers. Medicine, law and psychology witnessed an increase in applications, and by 1974 the numbers of women in post graduate fields were significantly increased.

Initially, I found myself on the side of the conservatives, who were resisting women becoming professionals. After all, a female psychologist would be taking a job away from a man who was the support of the family. I needed to come to grips with the idea that women were now calling for full participation in the marketplace and that the dual income family was the coming norm.

Earlier I had had no problem accepting a divorced woman with children as a doctoral candidate, but later one of my best undergraduate women wanted to enter graduate school. Taking a single woman as a candidate who might get married and have children and drop out of the job market—was that fair? I did take her, and she ended up not only raising two children, but as a professor and an administrator at a university.