Radcliffe Class of 1969

The 1990 questionnaire was completed by 149 women, 99 of which had also completed the 1979 questionnaire. The questionnaires include both open-ended and precoded questions on family background, current family status, education and occupation, career planning, career patterns, work experiences, beliefs/attitudes, and work force participation patterns.

In addition, in-depth interviews were conducted with a representative subsample of nine participants to provide a more qualitative perspective on these women's experiences as one of the first generations of women to assume life-long employment, to enter male-dominated fields in large numbers and to postpone child-rearing. The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (copies of the transcribed interviews, the original paper questionnaires from 1979 and 1990).