{"id":202,"date":"2013-10-07T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:26:28","slug":"smgs-inception-a-more-men-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/10\/07\/smgs-inception-a-more-men-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"SMG\u2019s Inception: a \u201cMore Men Movement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some interesting BU history for you from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/everett\/fall13\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in SMG\u2019s magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/everett\/fall13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>SMG was founded in an effort to make BU less of a \u201cgirls\u2019 college\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1910, there were nine times more female students at BU than there were male students. Then a group of \u201cconcerned alumni\u201d formed and began the \u201cMore Men Movement\u201d. They did a survey of high school boys to learn what they wanted to get out of their college experience, and found that they wanted practical courses which would prepare them for careers in business. The business world was, of course, not accessible to women in this era, so classes in accounting, finance, and business principles did their job in attracting men, and repelling women. The College of Business Administration, as it was called at the time, enrolled 247 students, 40 of whom were female in its first year, 1913. Problem solved!<\/p>\n<p>Today, SMG is 45% female, and it does seem that as the next century begins, it is time for a \u201cMore Women Movement\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some interesting BU history for you from an article in SMG\u2019s magazine Everett: SMG was founded in an effort to make BU less of a \u201cgirls\u2019 college\u201d. In 1910, there were nine times more female students at BU than there were male students. Then a group of \u201cconcerned alumni\u201d formed and began the \u201cMore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/10\/07\/smgs-inception-a-more-men-movement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SMG\u2019s Inception: a \u201cMore Men Movement\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,97],"tags":[19,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}